you need community service to be able to graduate? i've never heard of that. To graduate i had to write a 15+ page paper on fuelcells for my chemistry/physics teacher and then i had to defend it oraly (+- 15 min), I also had to draw a schematic for the electrical installation in a house with either AUTOCAD or ROBODRAW and defend that oraly for about 10 minutes. And i needed 50% for every subject (I chose to do Industrial sciences and i had about 10 - 12 subjects), unofficially you're sort of allowed to fail one or two subjects cause otherwise not even half the people would be able to finish their senior year in one try. About 50% percent of kids here have had to redo at least one grade (ussually 9th or 11th) by the time they graduate.

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