This just in: approximately half of America's students scored below the national average on standardized tests in 2016.

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Not surprising, considering they teach to the lowest common denominator and don't bother giving most kids the extra help they need. I hardly bothered paying attention in school and still aced pretty much every test I took.

Except spelling tests, I always sucked at those.

33person · 26-30, M

Also since in any situation with that large of a population, you expect half of the data to fall below the mean.