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...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...
Virgo. A pall will settle over the University when the first crop of Advanced-Standees flunk out on placement tests. "We made a few mistakes," Dean Bundy will admit. "Those little beggars can be deceptive...
Yale, on the other hand, tried its best to separate the sheep from the goats before the first year, rather than after, It was not rare to have no failures take place over three years. Even now, as one student said, "It's pretty hard to flunk out of this place," although the actual number of failures varies from about five to ten in each class of about 150 over a three year period...
While such promotion is being readied, counselors are trained in regular classes and graded on-a point system. About a dozen usually flunk and are tactfully asked to resign; marginal cases (especially those who dress sloppily) are held on "reserve," and the best students become "front-row" counselors (wearing red tabs in their badges...