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Folks go on those shows TO reject folks. 
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and other teacher whose sn I can remember. How is this possible?
Student Sues High School Insisting She Can't Read or Write Despite Graduating With Honors: 'I Didn't Understand Anything'
A Connecticut student who testified about being illiterate during a city council meeting then went on to graduate high school with honors the next month is now suing the City of Hartford and its board of education for negligence.
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He put that tomato on there himself but that giant piece of lettuce is legit.
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In most public schools in certain zip codes the majority of kids can't read/write/Do Math on grade level.
Student Sues High School Insisting She Can't Read or Write Despite Graduating With Honors: 'I Didn't Understand Anything'
A Connecticut student who testified about being illiterate during a city council meeting then went on to graduate high school with honors the next month is now suing the City of Hartford and its board of education for negligence.
It isn't necessary to be able to do so to pass.
Folks won't get held back. Not enough space to do do.
Her trying to sue, iinteresting. Try your hand
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That sounds wild. So it's a matter of capacity? Is this a nationwide problem is more localized in small rural areas?
I'm sure educational proficiency dropping is an almost global phenomenon due to social media, smartphones, ... but I've never heard of cases where you can pass to the next year without critical skills in elementary or even kindergarten. You get held back, otherwise you're just bound to fail the next year.
It's kinda shocking that this person was able to get this far in the first place.
I think the educational standards in Belgium's highschool and elementary systems are far higher than the US judging by the average grades I always hear from Americans, particularly past once you get to highschool in the 7th grade (we don't have 'middle school' here).
The low 70% range is an average grade here in the 7th to 12th grade in A levels, which is the highest tier of education. 75% is good and above 80% across all classes is exceptional. There were 2 students with certified genius IQ's in my school and they only scored around 85% across the board.
In elementary school, failing an 'essential' class will always always force the student to redo their year. A passing grade is 50.5% here. A low 50s passing grade however comes with an asterisk for the next year and you'll be forced to raise that number or risk being forced to retake your year.
Depending on how far below 50% a student fails an essential class, they might get an exemption and be allowed to advance to the next year but they must pass that particular class or they can be sent back to the previous grade as early as the first trimester exams depending on the results.
Same goes for highschool, though you get much more leeway with failing classes. Back in elementary school I was very competitive and strived to be the best, though I'd mostly come in second.
In highschool I realized that I didn't actually need to study or do homework to pass all of my classes so I became extremely lazy.
For the most part this wasn't an issue as my grades were either average or slightly below the average in A levels (the highest tier).
I specifically picked the route of "human sciences" after the 8th grade because that included classes like behavioral sciences, cultural sciences and reduced the hours of math to 3h/week.
That's where math started becoming an issue. I'd scrape above 50% on classes like chemistry and physics but for whatever reason I just couldn't get math to work without studying or doing homework. My overall grades remained average to slightly below average due to things like near perfect scores on English etc but on math I'd usually end the year with an average of around 35%.
In highschool though you get to take an extra exam during the summer. I'd get a tutor for 2 weeks so I'd be forced to actually do math exercises and the subsequent result of my re-exam was always high enough to drag my measly 35% above the 50% range.
If you failed to drag your average up past 50%, you'd automatically have to retake the entire year. You can't just add a failed class to the next year like you can in college/university. Like in elementary, a low passing grade also comes with that asterisk where you have to reach a higher average than your previous year (with the extra exam if necessary) or you'll be forced to retake your year anyway.
There's no such thing as optional classes here in highschool, you can only pick between a handful of routes per tier of education (A levels, B levels, C levels) and each 'route' comes with a set of classes.
Examples of such routes in A levels are "Humane sciences", "Math 8h/week", "Math-economics", "Latin/Math", "Latin/Greek", ...
B levels offered things like "Office management" and similarly more manual routes. B levels and C levels also have the unique perk of granting you a business license upon graduation.
C levels are extremely low grade in terms of theoretical classes but they offer very straightforward and effective routes like "farming", "construction", "hairdressing", ... basically manual labor so you're immediately fit for the job market right upon graduation. I've been able to look at the class material of C levels and any theoretics are extremely minimal. Anything unnecessary to be able to become a hairdresses, construction worker etc is basically just scrapped.
A levels is expressly meant for people who intend to pursue university or college after graduating highschool. B levels is sort of a mix that should render you competent enough to get a job straight out of highschool in a particular field, but the education standard should also be sufficient to be able to handle college or university.
C levels is exclusively meant for manual labor straight out of highschool. Only 3% of C levels graduates who attempt college of university actually pass the first year of college/uni.
College/university grade averages seem to be in line with the grades I hear from Americans, unlike the massive disparity in averages for highschool grades. Sure, getting in the 90% range for a particular class isn't that unheard of but I've never heard of anyone sniffing above 90% on their total average across all classes.
One of my cousins for example has a MENSA-tested IQ of somewhere in the upper 130 range (139 if I recall correctly) but he never reached a 90% total average in highschool either. University is where he got the kind of grades you see from top tier students in US universities and he now works as a quantum physicist.
Idk what explains that disparity. Obviously US top universities are superior to ours, there's no question about that. Top university students' grades over here are also in line with those of similar US university students. It's only in highschool where there's this massive disparity that I can't seem to make sense of. Maybe we're just extra hard on highschool students to better prepare them for university? After all there's no such thing as college/uni admissions here. Anyone can apply to any university.
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Oh yea "Social Promotion" is real all the way up until HS. Its about money, of course, in the US.
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I think you could argue our education system is extremely wasteful but I think it's for the best.
Because literally anyone can apply and get in to the most prestigious universities in Belgium, pretty much every college/uni we have has extremely high dropout and failure rates.
As I mentioned before, those who graduate highschool in C levels have a passing rate of 3%, and that's just for the first year of university. That percentage progressively goes down the closer you get to graduation.
Even just generally speaking, roughly 30% of all higher education students fail somewhere along the way and never get their degree. When you look at the stats for students who fail at least one year, those numbers are far higher.
So it's fair to say our heavily subsidized and free choice higher education system is wasteful, however most people are of the opinion that this is worth it to allow as many people as possible to at least get the opportunity to try.
Without any of the financial benefits you can apply for, the maximum you'll pay in annual tuition to either of our 2 actual world class universities (Ghent University and Leuven University) is roughly €900.
Depending on your financial status, you can lower that by half or even to somewhere around €150/year. There's no reducation for all the expensive study books however, which can easily add up to hundreds of euros.
In addition to that, you can apply for a student grant of up to roughly €2700 but I'm not entirely sure of the requirements for that.
In more recent years the "wastefulness" of higher education policies has become slightly more controversial, as there were a lot of ways for students to extend their time as students to arguably unreasonable lengths. This was dubbed the issue of "the eternal student."
One of my friends for example was a university student from right out of highschool to the age of 26, and her eventual degrees were a bachelors in psychology and a masters in clinical psychology.
Needless to say, it does not take 8 years to get a Masters in clinical psychology. However due to various circumstances related to her mental health and being able to take failed classes to the next year infinitely without any real consequences, she eventually stayed a student for such a long time. She did graduate Cum Laude though.
So in response to many similar cases, there's been a crackdown on how many failed classes you can take with you to the next year. Probably the most controversial part was you could continually renew all those financial grants year after year as long as you fit the financial requirements, which is exactly what my friend did for those 8 years. Every possible tuition reduction and student grant, every year.
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I think winter in mn has been shortened by like two months. Was legit thinking of pulling my 
out today and it’s feb.
It’s cool because it’s 60 in feb but this isn’t gonna end well.
out today and it’s feb. It’s cool because it’s 60 in feb but this isn’t gonna end well.
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I've looked up zero data but I can confidently assert that you're absolutely right.
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However there’s also zero dispute that the US higher education quality is better than ours. That’s also reflected in the fact that the grade disparity is suddenly gone once we’re comparing top college/university students’ higher education grades.
The fact that an A in US highschool equals 90-100% and an F isn’t even below 50% but starts at below 60% completely baffles me.
Using American grades, a “good” annual overall average score here would equate to a C, or a 2.0 GPA.
None of that makes any sense to me. Perhaps the actual class material is of a similar standard but the disparity comes from how tests, homework and exams in highschool are done?
In highschool, do you guys have regular tests, graded homework and exams each trimester for every class?
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Perhaps a difference in grading could explain it.Trimester?
(But yes.)
In highschool, do you guys have regular tests, graded homework and exams each trimester for every class?
Regular tests here are graded on a score of 0-10, as is homework. Special assignments like essays tend to be scored from 0-20. Trimester exams are graded on a score out of 100.
Also, each class’ final end of year exams of course test you on the entire year’s learning material, not just what you learned in a trimester like the previous ones.
Then our annual average % is calculated off those combined results. Exam scores count for 70% of the year total. Tests are 20% and the remaining 10% is your homework. That’s how we calculate the average per class. Your overall score is just the average % of all your class percentages obviously.
So if you skip out on homework and/or have some bad tests, it’s not the end of the world as long as your exam scores are good enough to drag your total above 50%. Even if you average a straight 0 on homework and regular tests, you can still reach a maximum of 70%.
On the other hand, great scores on tests and homework can’t carry you, you’re gonna need to put in some work on the exams too.
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What I meant with my previous response was that we don't have trimesters.
We have semesters; hence the question "Trimesters?"
Grading scales for assignments are up to the teacher to decide.
Exams are definitely weighted more than homework; A LOT more.
We have semesters; hence the question "Trimesters?"
Yes.
Grading scales for assignments are up to the teacher to decide.
Exams are definitely weighted more than homework; A LOT more.
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