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by lxhmj 2496 days ago
No it's not, since playing in a park is normal, but killing yourself for getting bad grades is not.
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9wzYQbTYsAIc 2496 days ago
Working hard for good grades and being disappointed at failure is normal too.

Software design could, probably should, have incorporated the social context of failure. This is Asia, India in particular, that we are talking about here - the hyper-competitiveness that these kids go through is probably worse than what medical doctors go through in prestigious schools in the US.

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lxjum 2496 days ago
>Software design should have incorporated the social context of failure.

Yeah sure. My bad. Let's be reasonable:

if(grade < 5)grade = 5

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9wzYQbTYsAIc 2496 days ago
How about if(gradeForStudent(i) < avg(gradesForStudent(i))) flagForReview

Still a one liner.

You seem to have forgot that the software defect was an error in grading.

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