Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headmaster had no reply. Emphasis in the school has shifted toward intellectually challenging the top half of the class. The others have to follow along the best they can--and must have a certain IQ not to flunk out. This situation disturbs the headmaster. His graduates have a very successful record in gaining admittance to college, but he has no idea where the school itself is heading. He fears that if the current emphasis on intellectual capabilities continues, the institution cannot survive in competition with large schools which can attract more easily first-rate students with their better facilities...
...agonizing experience," he continued, "and many flunk out. Their failure is the fault of their alumni fathers, but the boys themselves suffer the crushing disappointment of academic failure," concluded the alumnus, who termed himself "one who has watched some Yale sons suffer the torture of the damned...
...Deputy Mayor Henry Epstein of New York City tossed a group of local educators two questions for which no one seemed to have any answers. "How is it," he asked, "that the same youngsters who flunk shop courses are able to 'soup up' old jalopies with hand-tooled carburetors? And why are boys failures at making book ends but successes in crafting zip guns out of scrap...
...Chinese schools of Singapore. Since 1951, small groups of Chinese Communist students, disguised under elaborate names (e.g., "The Chinese Middle School Students Anti-British Association for Independence"), have been gradually taking over the schools. Their leaders are a hard core of overage youth, many of whom purposely flunk examinations in order to stay in school longer. They secretly distribute anti-British propaganda, have directed a series of petitions and strikes against the proposed British school subsidy and the British draft law requiring a few extra hours of training for reserves. They have gradually become a major political force...
...Free University, Gunter belongs to no class. He cannot flunk out, has no reading lists, and takes all his major exams immediately before getting his degree. When not attending classes, most Berlin students return to homes and boarding houses only coincidentally located near the campus or each other. "American college students form a community," Gunter explain, "But Germans 'go through' a-university while trying not to let it become an integral part of their lives...