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This was the same school which, when. Said I wanted to take English the summer before my freshman year.  They complied, by enrolling me in a remedial reading class.  I quickly figured out this whole thing was a joke and completed freshman college Englis my senior year at that JC (which Stanford allowed me full credit for.) 

Apparently what you needed was a remedial typing class (or some such).  [emoticon]

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Two things about the American public school system have always mystified me - having grown up in another country (northwards).

One is the guidance counselor as gate keeper to college thing. Just didn't exist for us. I guess they expected that if we were qualified to go to college we would be able to write letters asking for applications. I can see why some guidance could be helpful, but it still seems awfully foreign to me to trust one's future to somebody trying to oversee several hundred kids a year.

The other is buses zipping around all over town, eating up school budgets and determining the start/end times of the school day ... but that is quite another story.

[CTcard]

This was the same school which, when. Said I wanted to take English the summer before my freshman year.  They complied, by enrolling me in a remedial reading class.  I quickly figured out this whole thing was a joke and completed freshman college Englis my senior year at that JC (which Stanford allowed me full credit for.) 

Apparently what you needed was a remedial typing class (or some such).  [emoticon]

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Two things about the American public school system have always mystified me - having grown up in another country (northwards).

One is the guidance counselor as gate keeper to college thing. Just didn't exist for us. I guess they expected that if we were qualified to go to college we would be able to write letters asking for applications. I can see why some guidance could be helpful, but it still seems awfully foreign to me to trust one's future to somebody trying to oversee several hundred kids a year.

The other is buses zipping around all over town, eating up school budgets and determining the start/end times of the school day ... but that is quite another story.