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all true. promoting them while they are still ignorant makes them think that 1. they can get away with whatever they want without education and 2. downplays the importance of actually being educated. in a lot of cases, lack of education and ability to get good jobs are key reasons in the increase of crime and stuff like that.

however, if those people are kept back to "continue learning", they should be tightly monitored. oftentimes, as i'm sure a good many of us have experienced, the older kids who have failed or were held back (especially in elementary and middle schools) are more likely to be bullies, to influence the younger kids in bad ways, and get into more trouble. its a tough issue, and will likely never be resolved because a lot of the teachers and administrators out there dont care about anything except statistics.