Suspension in boarding schools

[Geoff]

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

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.

Brian:
> However it doesn't stop pupils from being advanced a year.  It 
> happened to me.

Geoff:
Which is a different kettle of fish...