TheRedAnarchist23

"Here, if you fail tests at a certain class, you fail that class, if you fail more than 2 classes, you will not pass the year, and will have to repeat the year you are on."

Very different than with us. Here, you don't really have seperate classes. I have 11 subjects that are all part of the same year. I can have three 5's (5,5 is insufficient) if I have 3 7's or 2 8's or two 7's and one 8. If I have more than three 5's (or two 5's and one 4, or 2 4's and one 5, or lower than a 4) one whatever jubjects, I will fail the whole year. Having one insufficient grade without being able to compensate it with at least one 7 means the same thing. So that means If I have one 3 at one subject, I will have to redo the whole year, so all 11 subjects. If I fail again, I will be expelled. I hope you're still with me because it is a little bit of a complicated system.

And as the grand Finale two songs of the most famous Dutch band ever: The Golden Earring (I bet you did not know them. They were most popular in the 70's or 80's or 90's, I don't know. But they still play)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylGkm...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwqMK...eature=related

This is an anti Wilders (you must know him) song, but it is very amateuristic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAyLUz3ru7E

The next song is from a protest band from Drenthe named Skik. This is not a protest song but the accent they sing with here is very alike with the accent the people use in my area. I do not however, I speak plain Dutch without an accent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCrJKO8_o9U

The title is 'Goodnight mister President'. I will PM the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXWdQGtl6qs

Another protest song against bombs, called: 'The Bomb'.
It is a song from the same band from which I showed you another song maybe a month ago. That song was about how to make joints. (this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXWdQGtl6qs) I will PM the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxYXLcy6WP8

This is an old Dutch protest song against the war in Vietnam and president Johnson. The protests in the beginning were one of the biggest protests going on in the history of the Netherlands. According to the voice in the beginning, people protested against bombs, and people with a sign saying: 'Johnson Murderer' were arrested.

"Voluntary conscription?"

Eh, no. I am a conscript now, I am forced to, but nobody gives a fuck. So I don't have to train or go to Afghanistan or Somalia etc.

Is your army active anywhere? We are in Afghanistan, Somalia (fighting the pirates/poor angry fishermen without jobs) and I believe in some other African country(s), but nobody ever talks about those coutries. We are doing anti terrorist things there I think.

He was hated by his family and nobody mourned when he died from an alcohol overdose.

"One of the 2 canaries died, it was the male one. "

Did the kittens get him? Or just naturally?

"The only references you have to the alien movies, are the existance of synthetics, and weyland corporation."

When I quickly skipped through the movie I saw an alien being born at the end from a creature that looks like the creatures that lay eggs in humans, but way bigger.

"That is 3 times the minimum wage here."

How the hell can you survive with 300 euro's?! You would not be able to pay the rent here. Students for example have to pay about 600 euro's per month for a room of 20 m².
What is your average pay? The average pay here is 34.600 euro's a year, only included the working people (about 7.7 million people)

"My god..."

If there is a hell, everyone except the Portuguese will go there I guess.

"I hear Amy Winehouse died that way."

The cops found 3 empty Vodka bottles in her room. Many people die from an alcohol overdose, but popstars seem to die more often thanks to drugs and alcohol. A far family member was an alcoholic and he drank so much he had a dilirium. That means you're constantly drunk. Even when he did not drink he was drunk, thanks to the brain damage. But he had to drink to make the pain go away.

But I was also talking about the education level in general. If your schools get deeper into the materials, many people will not understand, resulting in bad grades and demotivation. Here, the material is very detailed and if you don't understand it anymore, you are simply degraded until you do understand it.

But the fact that less intelligent people seek help with studying from smarter people is good, because less intelligent people will always learn from this even though they still have to study. And the intelligent people will learn to appreciate the less intelligent people.

"Usually the ones with lower inteligence, either ask someone who knows for help for a test, or they try to study, or they just fail the test."

Smarter people can't tell them the answers during a test, they have to study either way (like everybody else) and if they fail to many tests their education will be useless. I am not sure what happens in your country when you fail too many tests, but here you are degraded to a lower education or kicked from your school. If you degrade, your diploma is less worth than the diploma's of others. I imagine that in your country your diploma will have your grades on it or something. If you fail too many tests, this will be shown on your diploma and then too will your diploma be less worth than the diploma's of others.
And failing will demotivate you, which stimulates drop-outs.