[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Very good points. I think this is why I loved mathematics in high school, or specifically my mathematics teacher. Because he seemed to recognise this in me and instead gave me more abstract things to work on. I really struggle with geometric proofs for some reason, they just don't mesh with my brain. I'm all about symbolic stuff.

He actually ended up teaching me some calculus so I could grok trig identities, even though we were still in the precalc year. And let me use it on the tests to prove stuff that would have been expected to be proved geometrically.

The other big gripe I have with the way kids are tested is the way people are locked out of life because they're only good at one or two subjects to the extent they fail some of the others. Congratulations, you have failed at school because you, a teenager, can't meet our minimum requirements for being able to write inane, shallow analysis of 19th century poetry, can't run n meters in less than m minutes, and have failed to learn German. Good luck pursing your prolific talents with no high school diploma kthxbye.

[kayodelycaon]

You can fail to get a high school diploma because of lack of athletic performance? What school is this?

I completely failed an English course and still graduated. Even went on to fail classes in college. Had to retake a class but still got a degree.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Norwegian public school system. Certain subjects are required to get a diploma, which is pretty much a hard requirement to even be allowed to apply to a Norwegian university. Those include PE, Norwegian writing(two separate orthographies btw and you need grades in both!) and speaking, English, a 2nd foreign language, history, social studies, some math, and first year science class. Then there's addon elective stuff. I did theoretical math, physics, chem and biology. And I pretty much nailed those subjects

What's even worse though, you can show up, pass the final exam for a subject and still fail the subject due to "insufficient attendance" throughout the year. Which is what happened to me. I was skipping class too much to write code in my room, which ironically meant I couldn't get into a CS course even though I could code circles around the well-behaved neruotypical kids who showed up for class and did their homework.