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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He’s not wrong. [/quote] But he's also from a system where only 31% of 16-year-olds would continue with formal academic education, as opposed to 100% of students here. So of course the general high school population seems skewed to him. Two-thirds of the students he's in class with here would have dropped out of academia by this age in Germany.[/quote] This. Including kids who might have matured or received a diagnosis and gotten help, then gone on to be successful academically. One of my brothers was depressed from age 11-16, but it was a really quiet depression. He looked unmotivated and apathetic. Medication turned everything around for him. Today, he has a four year degree and thriving career. In Germany, he would have been shunted into trade school by 16. [/quote]
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