High School Status Check in 2026
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"Dropping out due to GPA competition"
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I'm currently a high school student, and while dropping out itself is one thing, the problem of re-enrolling after dropping out is really serious, I think. There are noticeably more cases of students dropping out just because their GPA isn't good and re-enrolling in a lower grade, but naturally, students who re-enrolled already learned for an extra year so it's easy for them to secure good grades. Then they get pushed back by older students and it becomes harder to get good grades, so they drop out again.. I keep thinking it's a vicious cycle. How bad must things be for a new term like 'GPA reset' to be created? Adults and the media don't seem to understand this situation correctly. There are seriously no students dropping out these days and immediately preparing for the nationwide exam. Different regions, schools with good GPAs.. they're preparing to re-enroll in lower grades. I don't think this situation is normal. I really wish you'd understand this.
Dropped out due to GPA pressure and re-enrolled in a lower grade it's possible
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16 comments
Wow, times really have changed lol. Back in the day only problem kids were repeaters, but when I was a senior there were repeaters in my grade and honestly made things easier
Seriously, why are people living like this? Parents teaching kids like this is the real problem
Repeating a year to compete with younger, academically behind kids? That doesn't make sense. Both repeating and cram schools need to have limits, come on
That's like Re:Zero lol
GPA reset meta, genius lol
High school doesn't really work like that but middle school does. The whole thing about managing middle school grades to get into STEM schools and basically securing your college admission there was already a famous route back then
Wait, can you even drop out of middle school? No way, thought it's mandatory education lol
The 'obligation' isn't on the minor student, it's on adults. Rights and obligations are only fully guaranteed to adults. The obligation to educate falls on parents and schools, not on the student to be educated. It's the school's obligation to teach, not the student's obligation to learn.
Middle school doesn't have dropout options so you can't reset your grade. When re-enrolling from mid-withdrawal, your only choices are re-admission (same grade/semester) or transfer enrollment (one grade higher)
Even back in my time, high school repeats weren't that commonโusually 1-2 repeaters per grade, but back then it was to get into your preferred high school. Now it's turned into a GPA reset meta lol. With how much weight student profiles carry in applications, this trend's probably gonna get worse
Now starting from 2028, even regular admissions will consider GPA (Seoul National University's 2028 admission reform has 60% SAT + 40% GPA). Students doing cram school prep tests ignoring high school, hardliners ignoring GPAโall gone. Repeaters with bad GPAs will disappear en masse. Universities are gradually increasing GPA weight in regular admissions too. Dropping a grade to re-enroll is a crazy move I never imagined, but feels like we'll see more of this
This is just... hard to comment on. Korea's education and economy work like this: Seoul metro prestigious university โ good job and corporate entry โ labor pay + corporate loan real estate trading โ Seoul and above GPA location good mortgage loan and full-scale apartment trading. This is the 'official Korean slave' tech tree. What I mean is, the best way to control workers in Korea is to make them obsessed with prestigious universities and viral-spread them to obsess over real estate, turning them into slaves in Korea. This was the control device political and corporate elites used on workers and commoners for decades. Meanwhile, attempts to break this came from the policies of Moa-hyung from AhnLab (who made V3 antivirus) or current administration's finance-friendly policies, but I can't really get into the details. Basically, they're trying to build a foundation where just like Britain, America, and Japan, people can move from lower to middle to upper class through finance alone. This direction is meant to eliminate the 'official slave tech tree,' but honestly right now it just looks like people are willingly choosing to become slaves of an old era
Sigh, try to escape slavery bro
Same thoughts. Putting all-in on real estate with max leverage and sitting on it? You just spend your whole life paying mortgages and property tax and die. When you pass it to your kids, they rip you off with inheritance tax. The real winners are the privileged class that sold real estate to houseless upper-middle class people, IMO
I've brought this up a few times but the reality is basically all education groups want the same direction [kill regular admissions and expand other application types (decided by teachers and universities)] and nobody can stop it. Education Ministry: wants any achievement to get promoted and advance. Needs to secure budget. Teachers: no teacher is better at lecturing than top-tier hagwon SAT instructors, so they need a way to have professional pride as a teacher (heard from teacher friends). Hagwon instructors: way better money in multiple pathways than winner-takes-all SAT instruction. Universities: complex applications = easy money extraction and favor nepotism for professors' kids. Rich parents: open backdoor paths to get dumb kids into good schools (we had n professors in our department swapping kids' papers to put their names on and get them into college). Even 'righteous' ones are everywhere. Regular parents (kids doing poorly): can't do SAT anyway so find backdoors and throw money. Indifferent parents: don't care. Regular parents (kids doing well): the only real victims. But since self-made success stories basically don't exist anymore, nobody listens to their complaints.
lmao this is giving me flashbacks, high school in 2026 is literally just phones and mental health awareness nobody talks about ๐
wait why is this so accurate it's scary... the pressure is actually insane compared to when my older brother went
okay but real talk, at least gen z has better resources now? my parents had zero support in the 90s
this hits different when you're currently IN high school rn and can confirm everything ๐ญ
the way this post made me feel old and I'm only 24... time flies man
not me seeing my little sister in every single one of these points ๐ฏ this is so real