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Re:I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams by refurb on Friday December 27, 2019 @12:14PM (#21892520)
You have to understand the American mentality.

I’ve talked with parents who told me how unfortunate that their kid can’t go to a good school. The school has a score of 9.2/10 versus the school they wanted which scores 9.5/10.

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Re:I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams by thatfrenchguy on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:50PM (#21893369)
We can all thank Greatschools and their Gates foundation grants for making everyone think you can assign a number to the quality of a school (which most people in the rest of the world would think is nonsense), and to perpetuate redlining by making sure your kids go to school only with other wasian people.
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Re:I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams by dragonwriter on Friday December 27, 2019 @02:33PM (#21893766)
The policy push toward simple reduced-to-a-number school report cards significantly predates Greatschools, which just jumped on the bandwagon.
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