Suspension in boarding schools

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Brian <brian at ...> wrote:

Brian:
> Keeping someone back a year is almost unheard of in British state (i.e. 
> public) schools, that's why.  I've never heard of it happening.  I can't 
> speak for public (i.e. private) schools.  However, apparently it 
> happened to Marcos Flint, although JKR only said that he'd been kept 
> back a year when it was pointed out that she'd had him there for eight 
> years, so I suspect it was an excuse for an error rather than her intention.

Geoff:
Indeed it is true of all English schools that keeping 
someone back a year is unheard of. Educational regulations
specify the age at which a pupil must be to enter a given 
school year.

There are even occasions where twins have been placed in 
different years because their birthdays fell across the 
31st August/1st September cut-off date.

The only cases I ever heard of were exceptional ones where 
a pupil was injured or ill during the year of their GCSE or 
A Level national exams and were too ill to attend classes 
or have private tuition.