Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opportunity to Flunk. Hechinger's carefully drawn comparison between the present U.S. and Soviet school systems shows flaws in each. For all Russia's talk of mass education. Soviet schools-at least the sort to which visiting educators are taken-are planned for an elite class of students. In recent years only about 12% of Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin...
...Binding. In Manhattan, a delivery truck of Barnes & Noble, Inc., publishers of school and college textbooks, has the word PASS painted in large letters on the left side of its tail gate, the word FLUNK on the right...
Another Senior Tutor, Stewart, says, "My feeling is that anybody who really doesn't feel he should be here, should leave, except if he wants to leave because he thinks he's going to flunk the course. My feeling is that leaving is like constructing a building--often you must go back to get materials to complete the structure, a background to finish college...
...more ordeal before leaving for home: final examinations. Said he resignedly: "They're just a formality. I've been ordered not to base my grades on the exams. I couldn't anyhow. They're all going to compare answers, and I can't flunk anyone...
...Multnomah County, taken a $500 bribe from a gambler. But when he went to take the test, Schrunk objected to six questions (e.g., "While sheriff, did you receive any payoffs from any gamblers?"), stalked out. Later he told the committee: "Apparently they were aimed at trying to make me flunk the test...