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ralphlsasser · 10th December 2007, 13:44

In the United States, at least where I am from, if you do not do grade level work, you fail and have to repeat the grade. Since the No Child Left Behind bill was passed, they don't fail as many, because the taxpayers pay overtime for a teacher to tutor the ones that cannot make it. The majority of the students that do not make it are from homes with no father and/or mother, taking drugs, alcoholics, or just do not care if their children even go to school. The only reason they are in school because it's the law and the parents will go to jail if their children do not go to school.

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ralphlsasser ralphlsasser is..... Established User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: suphanburi Posts: 178 vCash: 500 Rep Power: 57	Re: Motivating Mathayom Students In the United States, at least where I am from, if you do not do grade level work, you fail and have to repeat the grade. Since the No Child Left Behind bill was passed, they don't fail as many, because the taxpayers pay overtime for a teacher to tutor the ones that cannot make it. The majority of the students that do not make it are from homes with no father and/or mother, taking drugs, alcoholics, or just do not care if their children even go to school. The only reason they are in school because it's the law and the parents will go to jail if their children do not go to school.