No Graduation in the UK?

[Barbara]

Actually, the real reason my local school system doesn't want to hold back students because is that they fear it would cost them more money. Students would be in school longer, upping the enrollment. While some educators rationalize not failing students because of "touchy-feely issues," in the end its economics that causes school boards to make the policies they do. 

Barbara (Ivogun)


 Steve" <bboyminn> wrote:


> 
> But in practice, especially in the last decade or so, they have
> fallen into a touchy-feely phase of education where no one 
> should ever feel bad and no one should ever fail...
> 
> So, students are passed to the next grade no matter how poorly 
> they perform.