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[MCU] Why were the kids that returned after the blip required to complete extra schooling?

So I watched *Far from Home* the other night, and I noted that the kids were annoyed that they had completed their "Mid Terms" before the blip.

Now I'm not American, so I had to Google what a mix term was, and it said:

>A midterm exam, is an exam given near the middle of an academic grading term, or near the middle of any given quarter or semester. Midterm exams are a type of formative assessment, to measure students' grasp of the course materials and identify areas that need work.

Now I then asked an American friend, and the way they interpreted that was that basically you've completed a fair chunk of schooling, and given that the Snap happened in "Spring 2018" in Wakanda, it would be the last mid terms before summer. Given that Wakanda is north of the Equator, spring is before the middle of the year.

Ok cool, so we have some context, we'll assume that the Snap happened around the end of May, given that Northern Hemisphere Summer happens on the 1st of June.

So you assume here, ok, the kids had ~5 months of school, that's cool, the rest of the world loved 5 years, that's cool, then the kids come back in October 2023 with the Blip.

Now cool cool, everyone else lived 5 years.

The bit I don't get, is that to those that were snapped, they *did not live that 5 years, to them, 2018 was just yesterday, it was just a few seconds ago*

So it's not like the kids *forgot* what they learned, so why make them restart the whole school year? I mean, it's not like it was 1 or 2 kids and it would just be easier to not change the curriculum.

It was 50% of all kids, a fairly substantial chunk.

To me, it seems like it would make sense to stagger the year by 50%, 50% of the kids are half a year ahead if their peers, and now that 50% graduate mid-year compared to the other kids.

So give them 2 months off until January the following year, and start them off with what they would have learned Mid-Year forwards. Then those that were in their final year will graduate at the end of June, the new School year for those that were snapped now starts mid-year.

I mean, yeah it's a bit convoluted, but it's 50:50, and realistically, it'll only matter for what? 10 years? 15 years? When do you start schooling in the USA? Google says you start at 5 years old in New York, and Finish at 18 years old, so that's 13 years you'd have to run a dual system for. Seems a long enough time that the investment in setting up that system would be viable.

Like, it's not as if it's only a 2 year ROI on your effort, you'll have 13 years where that system would need to run.
gpt
Because they were killed halfway through/towards the end of their school year, it means that said academic year was considered a complete write-off due to possible changes to the curriculum, among other things.

Remember, they do change things on tests and course material quite a bit, including reading material in English classes or what questions are asked in an exam. And with scientific advancements, particularly in the crazy world of the MCU, a lot of things could be considered just plain wrong or would include material that wasn't taught five years prior, such as the physics of space travel.