Dox47 wrote:
As a victim of several public school districts who tends to follow this sort of thing, I can tell you it's far from confined to Texas.
I'd hate to think they're all like that, but it would explain the international test score gap. I actually stopped trying across the board for the 2nd half of 8th grade, I'd get more trouble for showing up late and not wearing nice clothes (peers) than I did for completely f-ing off my assignments.
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