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Ulrike von Malottki

  • Jul 10

    German student's 'f**k you' graduation speech goes viral after 34% of her class fails final exams

    At a high school in Hagenow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 17 of 52 students failed the Abitur. One of them, Ellenor Bockentin, 18, used her graduation speech to denounce two years of missing maths instruction and what she called retaliatory grading, ending with 'Fickt euch einfach nur alle!'

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