ninme

You know, the power shortages and the violence is bad enough, but this is just too much:

A Star from Mosul - What’s happening: on private lessons?

A troubling thing is, students of the 6th grade of last year gave me an advice, they said that no matter how well I know the subject, I should make mistakes at the school exams. Why?

The Answer was that at the 6th grade’s final exams, you usually get an UNexpected grade.. People expecting 100 get 65!! And this really does happen.. If you get good grades at school, you’ll draw the attention at you, and as you give your paper away at the final exams, it will be switched with another student’s who usually is stupid.. Sons and daughters of highly rated Baathist, or of a high placed official at the government will get the good grades you were supposed to have.. This hasn’t stopped after the war.

People were hoping that after the war, the final exams wouldn’t be a matter LUCK.. But, it showed them wrong.

I’m just thinking about the AP kids in high school with me… I was just in one AP class senior year, so I wasn’t really bothered, and didn’t score high enough on the AP test for it to matter at the college I went to, but thinking about the kids who needed those grades to get into Stanford or Berkeley or one of the Ivy Leagues, and how freaked out they were already, and if their grades were being stolen… Man. I can’t even imagine.