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Did you fail any classes in high school?
Never 20 (76.9%)
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Did you fail any classes in high school?
Topic Started: May 19 2007, 10:59 AM (324 Views)
Riley
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I have only ever failed one class, and it was grade 10 math.

It was a combination of lack of homework completion, and lack of studying.
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dolmansaxlil
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Nope.

I went through a bit of a rough time in my last year of highschool, when my then boyfriend was killed in a car accident. As a result, I was failing calculus and algebra/geometry. Luckily, I had the same calculus teacher I had for math the year before, when I got a 96% in his class. He and another teacher came to me and snapped me out of it. I dropped Alg/Geo (I had MORE than enough credits to graduate) and came in for extra calculus help every morning to go over what I had "missed" in my fog for the first couple months of school. I ended up with a high 80 in the class.

I ran into Mr. Hildebrandt a couple years ago, and unfortunately he's quite ill (lukemia). He was a wonderful man and teacher.
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Daniel\
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Never but in 7th or 8th grade I did get a 65 or 66 in French. 65 was passing. Don't ask me translate. :P

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sue
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Daniel
May 19 2007, 01:41 PM
Never but in 7th or 8th grade I did get a 65 or 66 in French. 65 was passing. Don't ask me translate. :P

I did something very similar. I think it was grade 9 (last year that French was mandatory, I think). I would have failed, but the teacher said she'd pass me as long as I promised not to sign up for French the next year. :P
I had a baaad attitude that year. :angel:
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John D'Oh
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I failed French and Geography, which are rather appropriate subjects for an Englishman to fail.
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Riley
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sue
May 19 2007, 08:12 PM
Daniel
May 19 2007, 01:41 PM
Never but in 7th or 8th grade I did get a 65 or 66 in French.  65 was passing.  Don't ask me translate. :P

I did something very similar. I think it was grade 9 (last year that French was mandatory, I think). I would have failed, but the teacher said she'd pass me as long as I promised not to sign up for French the next year. :P
I had a baaad attitude that year. :angel:

I did pretty well in grade 9 French.

Well enough, that I decided to take it again in grade 10.

Since it is no longer a mandatory class, grade 10 French is much more complicated! I struggled through it, and ended up with a 64, and decided not to take it again in Grade 11. :)
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CTPianotech
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I failed 3 out of 6 of my freshman year classes, entirely out of laziness.

My english teacher even made it a point to give me an F- for during the second marking period. Using some excuse about it being a high-level course wouldn't have helped, as I received an A- on the mid-term exam. ooops.
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Mikhailoh
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Sophmore English. I tied for second in the state in English Scholarship tests that year too. Mrs. Sullivan was a brand new teacher and I figured I could get by without doing my book reports. Bad strategy.

My parents were so confused.
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Aqua Letifer
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Never failed any classes, ever.

Can't say I really did exceptionally well in any of them, either. Thought it was too much trouble than it's worth. Still think so.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Riley
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Aqua Letifer
May 20 2007, 06:18 AM
Can't say I really did exceptionally well in any of them, either. Thought it was too much trouble than it's worth. Still think so.

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Mikhailoh
May 20 2007, 05:15 AM
Sophmore English.

You obviously have a great deal of faith in my restraint, if you're going to feed me straight lines like that.
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I flunked Mechanical Drawing and Art, which is really ironic, because I spent my entire childhood sketching, drawing, and painting. The Mechanical Drawing teacher was NOT a teacher in any sense of the word. I legitimately wanted help and asked for it, and got mumbled, garbled crap instead of instruction.

I flunked art because the teacher was a $hit and made no secret of the fact that he hated his Beginning Art classes.

Neither the Mechanical Drawing teacher nor the Art teacher were teaching, the next year.

I also had to go in and plead with my Algebra teacher to give me a D-minus so that I could leave for boot camp, or else it would have shoved everything back another semester. In all fairness, in THIS class, I was definitely the one at fault. I spent my time pissing around and being a smart-ass, instead of paying attention and doing my work. (He gave me the D-minus, thankfully!)
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