American school system is absolutely bizarre. I'm from across the pond - I probably cut 80% of classes in my last year of school ( I ended up transferring to a

American school system is absolutely bizarre. I'm from across the pond - I probably cut 80% of classes in my last year of school ( I ended up transferring to a magnet school in 4th grade ). Most of my "will likely succeed" peers cut between 20% to 40% of the classes that year. Our teachers did not care what so ever: you had to be in for the tests, there were no make up days, your grade was your grade which was an average of all tests given. Age classes were split into sections based on performance. If you were in 5A, you probably did better than you were in 5B and you were definitely miles ahead of 5D. At the end of the every year there was a reshuffling between the letters based on previous year results. No one, absolutely no one, wanted to go down a grade. If your grade was higher than the minimum, you got to take the final test before graduation. Achieving the minimum score on it allowed you to graduate. If you did not get there, you did not get to do it which meant another year of school. That was in all test subjects: literature, math, geography, chemistry, physics, biology, foreign language (addition only in our class). There was no curve. Hell, entire concept of a curve still baffles me. Results of the test: me - 2nd at 127% percent behind a girl who never cut a single class at 129%. Our of a graduating class of 142, 140 were taking the test, all 140 achieved the minimum 81% needed. All of people who cut classes that I knew scored over 94%. I did not realize how weird it was until I got to an American university.