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Hilarious Daily Show Video: Sean Spicer vs. the Kids

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))4/06/2017 1:58:00 am PDT

re: #70 wheat-dogg

China has a similar track system. Everyone gets a free education up to grade 9, then they take the zhongkao, the high school entrance exam. Kids who don’t make the cut — or opt out of the exam — are sent to junior colleges to learn a trade. Once there, they have no option to sit the college entrance exam.

Yeah, in America, you can fuck off all you like until the 10th grade, at which point you have to start buckle down and start taking college prep courses if you want to go on.

At least the standards for acceptance in Germany and China are objective and clearly defined.

America has this weird system of weighting in extracurricular activities, which serves to put a lot of pressure on students to do more and more and even more to stand out if they want to be accepted by an elite university.

Or you can just have your parents pay to build a new dormitory or science lab for the university of your choice…