In my opinion, students in elementary school advancing to the next grade even though they have not successfully completed the lower grade, is not right. In my mind children, that fail should be required to learn the curriculum that all of the others did. It is not right for the child that failed to move on when all the other students have worked hard to get good grades so that they can move on and advance to the next grade. Keeping a child back will teach him/her some responsibility to work harder.
It is not right to let a child fail, or socially promote them, and allow them to move on. For example, the failing child feels that it is fine to slack off and fail. This is the child that usually comes in late, misses several days of school, and does not do or hand in any of the work required. This all happens year after year because the child expects or knows that no matter what they will go on. Another reason is if that child is allowed to continue moving on they will try to take the
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If the child chooses to fail, they should have consequences for their actions. As adults have consequences and are held responsible for all of the choices that they make. Age should not matter either, just because the child is the same age as his or her friends, moving up doesn’t mean that the child is mature enough to be promoted to the next grade. If the child wanted to be with his or her friends then the child should have worked harder to move up the next grade to be with them. If the school would decide to hold back the child it definitely will not hurt the child. If nothing else the child learns to be held accountable and responsible for their choices. I used the term choice because the child ultimately makes the choice to do well or fail in school. It seems that once a child makes a choice to just get by, and as the school continues push them through, the domino effect just continues in the child’s