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So, I really don't know where to put this, so i'll just put this all the way down here, as it's school-related.

So, anyway, today the report cards from my school were sent out, and mine is not all too great. I didn't pass a single subject (or, rather, they failed me), and this is the first time this really happened. It never happened anywhere else I went, and I've went to quite a few different schools. I really don't know what I'm supposed to do now, I don't know how long I can hide this from my insane school-obsessed parents, or what I'm supposed to do next year. (If go to the same place, i'm quite sure I will fail again.)

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You didn't fail. Your teachers failed. Remember that.

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5 Wrote:You didn't fail. Your teachers failed. Remember that.
I kind of do. This is why I don't want to go the same school again next year.

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i failed everything 2!!!!!!!!! but F menes fantastic!!!!!
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Good luck with the parental units. Sadhug
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6moredetentions Wrote:i failed everything 2!!!!!!!!! but F menes fantastic!!!!!
Shut up. You're of no use to me in a situation like this one.

BTW, my school doesn't give letter grades. It gives %'s.

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What do you think your parents will do?

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liq3 Wrote:What do you think your parents will do?
I don't know yet. They did get the cards now actually, but they did not have any idea what all the hubers and columns meant. To try and keep them confused, I refused to explain to them, claiming not to understand it myself. However, I fear they might have their own ways of finding out, and then there's no telling what will happen.

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haha Razz

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You didn't fail. School failed.

Just drop out.

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I know how you feel, I got my report too but mine has a big fat 29% instead of columns.
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hey, i got my report too*
and i didnt pass english- i got an E- :waah:
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5 Wrote:You didn't fail. Your teachers failed. Remember that.


totally correct.

*angry side* : it pisses me off the most when parents or teacher blame you for not passing the class. it IS their fault. there job is to teach you the material you need to learn in order to pass their class. if you dont pass, they have failed in their responsibility to teach you what you need to know.

^^ dont know if it helps much, but good luck with dealing with everything ^^ im rootin for ya man

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wyldstryke Wrote:
5 Wrote:You didn't fail. Your teachers failed. Remember that.


totally correct.

*angry side* : it pisses me off the most when parents or teacher blame you for not passing the class. it IS their fault. there job is to teach you the material you need to learn in order to pass their class. if you dont pass, they have failed in their responsibility to teach you what you need to know.

^^ dont know if it helps much, but good luck with dealing with everything ^^ im rootin for ya man
Eh you can look at it another way. The teachers failed their purpose of teaching you. If you weren't trying to learn it, which is the most likely case, you didn't fail anything. You weren't trying, how could you fail?

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Trying is the first step towards failure. =P

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Cory Wrote:Trying is the first step towards failure. =P
Not true. What if your goal is to try? Then you succeed every time you try. Razz

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Quote:If you weren't trying to learn it, which is the most likely case, you didn't fail anything. You weren't trying, how could you fail?

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Couldn't it be said that you failed yourself?

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rAnx Wrote:Couldn't it be said that you failed yourself?
No, it could not. I don't make the grades. I don't do any teaching. They failed me.

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rAnx Wrote:Couldn't it be said that you failed yourself?
No, it could not. I don't make the grades. I don't do any teaching. They failed me.
So despite the fact that you didn't want to get in trouble for your grades, it was still inevitable that you would fail every single class? There was absolutely nothing you could have done to not fail every single class and keep yourself in good standing with your parents?

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rAnx Wrote:Couldn't it be said that you failed yourself?
No, it could not. I don't make the grades. I don't do any teaching. They failed me.
So despite the fact that you didn't want to get in trouble for your grades, it was still inevitable that you would fail every single class? There was absolutely nothing you could have done to not fail every single class and keep yourself in good standing with your parents?
Yes, and then he would have failed himself in other ways, amirite?

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You can't fail yourself by not acheiving some goal that other people set for you that you had no say in. You only fail yourself if it was your own goal, that you chose, out of your own free will.

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And down goes half of all arguments made by teachers. Mohawk

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SoulRiser Wrote:You can't fail yourself by not acheiving some goal that other people set for you that you had no say in. You only fail yourself if it was your own goal, that you chose, out of your own free will.
What I'm referring to isn't the fact that he failed in school but that he got in trouble when he had no intention of getting in trouble. The unfortunate part for him is that the two events are unavoidably linked, so in order to achieve his own goal of staying in the good graces of his parents, he must complete the goal that was assigned to him. What I'm harping on him for isn't the fact that he failed every class - if he can fly with that, more power to him - but rather that he failed his own objective and is shifting the blame.

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Umm... that kinda assumes that his teachers are... y'know.... any good.

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Old ass thread is old.

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(06-30-2008 11:09 AM)rAnx Wrote:  
SoulRiser Wrote:You can't fail yourself by not acheiving some goal that other people set for you that you had no say in. You only fail yourself if it was your own goal, that you chose, out of your own free will.
What I'm referring to isn't the fact that he failed in school but that he got in trouble when he had no intention of getting in trouble. The unfortunate part for him is that the two events are unavoidably linked, so in order to achieve his own goal of staying in the good graces of his parents, he must complete the goal that was assigned to him. What I'm harping on him for isn't the fact that he failed every class - if he can fly with that, more power to him - but rather that he failed his own objective and is shifting the blame.

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Don't feel bad. I failed all of my classes too.
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I failed all of 3rd quarter, and am failing most of my classes now.

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