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It differs state to state. When I was in high school you had to pass the HSCT (high school competency test) to graduate. I could have passed it in 3rd grade. Now, in Florida, they have the FCAT which students have to take every few years starting in third grade and a final one their senior year of high school. I'm sure you'd have to be retarded to fail that one too.

Thanks for the info ^^
Always hard to understand other countries education system, especially when the grades are reversed and school changes are not the same. Here in France, for secondary, we go from 6th grade to 1st and final grades and high school is in fact two different schools (6th to 3rd with a dumb exam at the end and another for 2nd, 1st and final grades with the big exam at the end). Also, the last part can be different (general that leads to college or professional that leads to work) according to how you performed before.

my bad dreams are all positively terrifying and disgusting and would be great inspiration for the next torture porn movie.

mostly, I don't dream though.

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my bad dreams are all positively terrifying and disgusting and would be great inspiration for the next torture porn movie.

Or the next Kanzen avatar

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Also, the last part can be different (general that leads to college or professional that leads to work) according to how you performed before.

I wish they had a system like this is American schools. Yes, the smarter kids can take advanced courses in high school and even receive college credit but the system is exactly the same for everyone else. Whether you're planning on going to college or just going straight to work after high school, you take pretty much the same classes. There is very little in the way of learning life skills or job skills in the typical American public school. My friend teaches high school students and some of the things he tells me frighten me. A lot of kids leave school and go into the real world with very little knowledge of how the working world works. They have to take four years of English, math, history and science but there are nothing to show you how to actually get a job and perform in the real world. These kids don't even know how to balance a checking account or pay bills.

some places have vocational programs where people can go to learn certain trades HVAC/carpentry/etc. I know my high school had one that kids could choose.

I think the real problem, though, is that we have people making career choices at the age of 16 or whatever. Nobody really has much of an idea of what they want to be, or what their desired job actually entails at that age.

We don't learn much about life here too. Even those going to professional path basically end up being low-class workers, technicians at best. But at least they get a job
Some north european country are better at this because they have standard class in the morning and practical workshop in the afternoon. That's a good way to discover what you really like too.

High-school is also very bad at teaching you what you could do as a career. Basically teachers and advisers always tell you to go to scientific branch because it's "the best" and you end up being pushed by social expectations without really knowing where you're going. So I strongly agree with you EL on this one.

Between the lack of good parenting and school counseling, the adolescent mind doesn't have much of a chance. I am lucky...make that VERY lucky...that my undergraduate students have no such problems because the competition is so tough to get into UC, and this campus in particular. These kids are smart and very competitive. I feel for the kids who for lack of direction and support at home end up in the junior college system here just spending time until someone will answer their job requests for a job.....any job or wasting the time and energy of their teachers. They are bored and unproductive and a problem.

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some places have vocational programs where people can go to learn certain trades I know my high school had one that kids could choose.

I think the real problem, though, is that we have people making career choices at the age of 16 or whatever. Nobody really has much of an idea of what they want to be, or what their desired job actually entails at that age.

SO this happened...which is kinda cool

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But I prefer the Ron Burgundy type of teleprompter hijacking.

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ROFL !

#31 Bitches.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/03/18/canadian-food_n_2869764.html#slide=2219030

Sounds diabetic.

Poutine. When it was described to me I laughed my head off and then I tried it. Much to my surprise that shit is good !!

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#31 Bitches.

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Poutine. When it was described to me I laughed my head off and then I tried it. Much to my surprise that shit is good !!


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It is good...just not particularly good for you. Now places are adding bacon to it...yeah, cuz the cheese, french fries, and gravy weren't quite enough fat.

Fat schmatt, bacon makes everything better

SP is just in it for the big fat titties.

Bacon is, much like the movie Scarface, massively overrated

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Bacon is, much like the movie Scarface, massively overrated

Blasphemer ...

Lindros is an excellent movie critic, but as a food critic....not so much.

Which reminds me, if I had to come back as a man....(curse the thought ..) I would want to be Anthony Bourdain.

Who, incidentally, loves poutine.

There was a time when I found bacon to be an unobjectionable addition to a nice breakfast or sandwich. It has acquired a cult-like following which has really put me off of it, although a larger portion of my newfound aversion to it is that I don't eat much meat anymore, particularly red meat (not that it really matters), and pork is a particularly meaty meat, even when grilled to a crisp.

So I choose to dislike bacon. Others are free to like it, for I shall not judge them based solely upon their pig consumption, but I shall not.

I wonder who I would be if I had to come back as a man? (or, at least a different one)

Sometimes you read something that makes you want to punch a fella right in the potatoes. This is one of those times: http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2013-03/11/top-tables-new-york-restaurants-dining-scene/viewall