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Originally Posted by Major Major
I am 30 years old, so maybe older people can chime in. When I was in school, there wasn't a constant flux in my grade between people being held back year to year. You went with your grade group essentially regardless of performance, and that was 20 years ago. High School is a different story, but I believe that it largely still is. So was there a time that you went into your school year with the legitimate threat that you would not move on to the next grade with your peers?
There are legitimate consequences from the socialization aspect of schooling to doing this, but I wouldn't be opposed to more of a 'passport' system where students have more freedom within the building itself in order to complete different mandatory and well thought out stages of education and could go on to the next stage of a particular subject area only when stamped to do so, making it less so about failure and mores about different people taking different amounts of time to complete a module. This would obviously be hard to do in Elementary.
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I guess I didn't see many kids held back, but there were a few here and there. The thing is that while I was never close to being one of them it was in the back of mind at times and I knew that if I didn't do the work it was at least a distant possibility.