Reply #105: "who gets the blame for that"

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I'll tell you who gets the blame for that, the people who decided to advance these girls a grade time and time again even though they did not learn what they are required to learn in those previous grades. Hold them back once, I bet those girls will make absolutely sure it will never happen again, and there may even be a chance they'd work hard enough to get themselves back up to the grade that matches their age level. The benefits to them learning that lesson early, rather than as an adult when they can really get screwed by not having learned it, are immense.

I'd assign some blame to the parent too, if the reality were not that the parent has no choice over where the child goes to school and what they learn there. Perhaps there is some genuine blame to be assigned in that direction, but it is not conclusive with the facts as given.

Isn't this proof of a broken system, that children can reach the age of 16 and not know the difference between a neighboring state and a foreign nation, yet still be advanced to grade after grade (and eventually be graduated) while persisting in this ignorance?