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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thread makes me sad.

I grew up outside of the US and what I see as one of its greatest strengths is that it is the land of second chances, third chances, and fourth chances.  You can fail and still have a chance to succeed.  You can bomb out out of high school, take some time off, get a GED and start at a community college and still become a doctor, an engineer, or a successful entrepreneur.  There is I believe almost no other country in the world where this is true.

We should be celebrating this instead of giving into the high stakes grades and testing mentality that other countries have.  Most of those have just a few paths to success, while ours are practically limitless.  The US is really the land of opportunity.  Why would we want to change that?[/quote]

This is such a good post. We shouldn't be trying to replicate the systems of other countries, we should be emphasizing the strengths of the system we have. 
We don't pigeonhole kids at an early age and we allow people to try and try again. 
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