...So I guess they let you stay? That seems like a risky game to me, I didn't think schools really cared about their students individually, just on an aggregate

...So I guess they let you stay? That seems like a risky game to me, I didn't think schools really cared about their students individually, just on an aggregate "x% graduated so we get funding" level. When I finished 8th grade, with 7th and 8th being full years of 4.0 GPAs every quarter, my junior high decided to kick me out instead of letting me go into 9th grade because I lived in the neighboring city and they didn't like that. The city JH and HS I went to after though were better anyway. I kind of wish I took the GED as soon as I could have, would have saved many years. I had the unfortunately lucky 'problem' of liking a lot of my teachers and classes though. Basically what I hated were the prerequisites and the required things like art/p.e./poorly taught history which I had already learned in junior high that I had no interest in those things. (I actually liked weight lifting in p.e., but the running and 'games' I didn't like.) (It's especially bad that many of the required subjects in high school are near-replicas of what was required in junior high since most students had forgotten what they learned by then and when a Ceramics course is available to fill an art requirement the teacher has to construct it for those who suck at art, while the good ceramics people still have to take it to get to Ceramics 2.)