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Well, it all depends on what you want out of life now, doesn't it? If you don't aspire to do much more than work in the service industry or construction or any other number of degrees that don't take "book learning" for, if not success, a comfortable ride, then who cares? If the school system feels that their D is an equivalent amount of knowledge to another system's C, then so be it.
If these kids aspire to anything else, though, then they need to go to college. I don't know if a community college will admit someone with a D average or not (I suspect that it varies).
I always find it interesting that people mention outliers when it comes to high school dropouts. The overwhelming majority of them work in the most menial of jobs and live in abject poverty. There are probably more liberal arts majors living in homeless shelters than there are millionaire high school dropouts.
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