They still operate in Turkey as far as I know.In our educational system as well, the priority is class attendance, relationship with other students and respect for school rules and teachers, charity work and other accomplishments not related to academic records.
You as a student can be evaluated for disrupting classes due to overall talkativeness I can imagine your note BM unsatisfactory
Grades for class attendance? If you don´t attend class you get kicked out of school here But first your parents will get a fine (ofcourse if you missed classes several times without a good reason). Yup, nothing motivates parents to push their kids in the classroom like cold hard euro´s 
Accomplishments next to academic records is just something you do for fun in Holland, or for the experience. It can lead to better jobs in the future, because you fill your resumé (says the former high school debate club top-speaker )
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