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Failing Middle School does NOTHING
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Failing Middle School does NOTHING

I remember being in Middle School and one of our classmates had stright F's every single year.

As in, close to 0%. The gentleman in question was a complete idiot, so i cannot say that he was some genius for felt school wasn't for him, but anyway.

At the end of the year he still was able to graduate with our 8th grade class. Honestly if i had known that i could have done nothing and still go to high school, i wouldn't have done anything. So someone could still get into any college they want after that since high school is the only grades they look at for the most part.

Was anyone else's Middle school like this?
01-19-2012 02:23 AM
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No. A buddy of mine failed fifth grade and is repeating it, right now.
01-19-2012 02:49 AM
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Interesting, it wasn't like that at all with us. We had another school for the kids that didn't care, they would go there in place of normal high school, except they went for less time per week.
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I remember a friend who tried to skip 5th grade because he was "too smart" and ended up failing 6th grade, he had to take 6th grade again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXMA34CeoQ
01-19-2012 03:04 AM
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(01-19-2012 02:58 AM)mitch101 Wrote:  Interesting, it wasn't like that at all with us. We had another school for the kids that didn't care, they would go there in place of normal high school, except they went for less time per week.

God damnit if you don't try at my school they just nag and bitch at you constantly

No, this is Patrick.
01-19-2012 07:36 AM
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(01-19-2012 02:23 AM)mitch101 Wrote:  I remember being in Middle School and one of our classmates had stright F's every single year.

As in, close to 0%. The gentleman in question was a complete idiot, so i cannot say that he was some genius for felt school wasn't for him, but anyway.

At the end of the year he still was able to graduate with our 8th grade class. Honestly if i had known that i could have done nothing and still go to high school, i wouldn't have done anything. So someone could still get into any college they want after that since high school is the only grades they look at for the most part.

Was anyone else's Middle school like this?

I was like this, except the complete idiot part, though that's probably what people thought (but I still trumped them on the tests.)
01-19-2012 08:13 AM
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Yea I figured this out alot earlier. So I have been full not give a shit mode for some time now.

Had to move on. Account is dead.
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