Colin Greevy and Social Promotion

[Robert Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 93084

Here in New York City, there is a big argument right now 
about "social promotion" of failing students, and since I am 
rereading COS I thought of Colin Creevy.  He was a first-year who 
got petrified early in the school year and unpetrified only at the 
end of the year, and yet in POA he is in year two.  Shouldn't he 
have had to repeat the first year?