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<p>Oh, right, because someone who doesn’t care enough to show up for his exams is going to put in the effort to coordinate several rounds of make-up exams.</p>
<p>And yes, of course there are no vindictive or merely principled high school teachers who would choose to exercise their right to fail someone who deserves to be failed, rather than be a dancing clown for any snotty teenager.</p>
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<p>So because there are popular kids with good grades, it’s impossible that the OP got bad grades as a result of trying to be popular. Try again.</p>
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<p>OP, my response to you. Take stock of your experiences, and hopefully you’ll realize that you’ve learned and grown socially even if not academically or on a resume. This will contribute to your overall success more than the studyhard strivers in this thread are capable to admit. Do what you have to do – go to community college if you must – and catch up. In so doing, you’ll really be ahead, because when you finally take a look around, at the mouth breathers whose bowl cuts you’ll look down upon, the satisfaction will dawn that while credentials can be improved, the pecking order is shaped and forged in one’s adolescence, and is thenceforth cast.</p>