One thing that is being brought up against homeschooling is that parents don't "fail their kids".
Now, here, the schools do NOT fail kids. I child in kindergarten may be held back WITH PARENTAL PERMISSION, but other than that... Nope. Your grade, up until grade 10, has nothing to do with your abilities and everything to do with your age. You can fail every subject and you STILL move onto the next grade level.
Furthermore, one school distrcit here has a "No Fail Policy" which means that the kids can not have failing grades on their report cards. While this is intended to have the teacher make sure the student does what he needs to to pass, you can imagine that in a city of almost 1 million people and who knows how many schools, there will be a certain number of teachers who will just let a child pass without the necessary skills.
2007-01-18
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