Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laggard students who flunk and repeat courses cost more to educate than smart ones who pass everything. This is manifestly unfair in a public school-system in which each student should benefit from the same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money...
...think. Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
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Those who flunk German A for the first half year or fare not too well in that course may take the first half year over again under the name of German C. It leads to German D, corresponding to the second half year of German A, which may be taken in the following fall. Dr. Howe, who is in charge of German C, is a teacher of the old school and is one of the very few men who can make nearly bearable a course which the vast majority are taking merely to satisfy language requirements...
...tell more that final examinations, valuable as the latter are to determine whether a boy is capable of meeting a test when the occasion arises. This will work out so that an applicant with a good school record will not fail of entrance to Yale simply because he may "flunk" a single subject in his finals. The ending of the September "finals" has come largely because the University does not expect particularly good results form a school-boy who has wasted his time during the school year and hurries through a summer school to make...