[sport]

There should be a age limit on attending public schools. When one reaches their 99th birthday, they should be kicked out of school regardless whether they play football or not.

[hanamizu]

There should be a age limit on attending public schools.

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Many years ago, I trained to be an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan. Anyway, the Afghan schools had a rule. One had to pass every class to move onto the next grade. Classes included 3 languages—Pashtu or Dari (whichever wasn’t one’s native language), Arabic (to study the Koran), and a modern foreign language (English, French or German—later Russian).

Because a high school diploma was the ticket to getting a relatively well-paying job in a relatively clean environment, the pressure was on, especially for kids whose families had money, to graduate.

But if they failed English, they’d have to repeat the whole year to try and pass the course. Results: 25 year-olds in 12th grade and lots of attempts to bribe the English teacher to get the kid out of school and into a decent government job.

I didn’t go to Afghanistan, so I didn’t see this first hand, but this is what we trained for, including how to turn down bribes from powerful locals.