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No, it’s a terrible system that we have here in Ontario. People kill themselves every year at Waterloo when they reach university and discover their 98% grade
by aianus 7y ago
No, it’s a terrible system that we have here in Ontario.
People kill themselves every year at Waterloo when they reach university and discover their 98% grade in high school math was a lie and they are completely unprepared and begin flunking out.
Simultaneously someone who goes to a good high school and learns real math but only gets an 80% (which should be good!) is instead stressing out that they won’t get into university because the published admissions average is 90%+. To their credit Waterloo actually adjusts grades based on which high school you go to, but now that is unfair to someone good who happens to go to a bad high school.
Finally you have rich kids that go from getting 60% in day school to getting 98% in their “accredited” private high school night classes which are economically incentivized to give the highest grades to their customers.
What a joke.