Occasionally, students in elementary school are advanced to the next grade even though they have not successfully completed the lower grade. Advocates of "social promotion. Basically stating that if you hold a child back for man than a year this would make them feel like they aren't smart and I agree.
I’m not saying that all children deserve this luxury but the ones that seem to work hard and try should because they actually worked to move on. The ones who just blow school work off and take school as a joke don’t need to move ahead because they have pretty much stated they don’t care about where they will be place in school. It’s basically a waste of time to them.
I do feel like it would drop their self esteem because holding them accountable to that would make them feel like they aren't smart and then drop out rates would begin to increase. And when this happens less likely they will become anything big in life. They won’t be able to do what they wanted to do because they were unable to finish school because of work ethics they had in school. Let’s say I dropped out of school all because I was being held back in school and I try and apply for a job. They wouldn’t hire me because for one I don’t have my high school diploma and then they wouldn’t want someone to work for them if all I did was blow work off at school. They wouldn’t want anything to do with me in the real world.
Some have trouble taking those exit level tests that determine their placement and that pressure is already on their shoulders and they got to try and pass straining themselves and this would cause stress and then grades would start to slip. I feel like it would be wrong to hold them for over more than a year and if that happens they won't enter middle school or high school in their right grade and then their age would expose
