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Rusty Shackleford Offline
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Just two months more

I have a good thing to share after a meagre time (if you will). My mandatory maths test went okay (I have to redo it next year, but I won't be insta-held back), my projects have all turned out good results, and I'm practically guaranteed to pass this grade. Liberty is close, my friends.

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When will you be graduating, if not this year? Seems like a lot of people on SS are either graduating this year or being very close to.

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Come join the Freed Men Society of Students. We have robes and rituals cuz it makes us look like some secret society trying to take iver the world with a shadowy hand guiding the Earth.

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Hey man, good luck to you!

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(05-14-2014 02:07 AM)SirMarty Wrote:  When will you be graduating, if not this year? Seems like a lot of people on SS are either graduating this year or being very close to.
Sadly, I still have another school year to go. I follow the Dutch model of education, and high school is six years. But sixth grade is only preparing for exams, so I should be capable of passing it. This year was very stressful and difficult, so I'm glad anyway.

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(05-18-2014 06:56 AM)Rusty Shackleford Wrote:  
(05-14-2014 02:07 AM)SirMarty Wrote:  When will you be graduating, if not this year? Seems like a lot of people on SS are either graduating this year or being very close to.
Sadly, I still have another school year to go. I follow the Dutch model of education, and high school is six years. But sixth grade is only preparing for exams, so I should be capable of passing it. This year was very stressful and difficult, so I'm glad anyway.
That's lame. How long is 6th grade of high school? It sounds shorter if it's only preparing for exams.

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