Education: Czar Marks

After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet schools marked their pupils excellent, good, medium, bad or very bad. Word had reached the U.S. last week that Joseph Stalin's Government has discarded this marking system along with coeducation, the Godless society and the Internationale. The new marks are 5 (for excellent), 4, 3, 2 or i. This is the system used under the late Czars.

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