1. And if they did poorly in summer school, they would be held back to repeat their grade. 2. Are Americans prepared to require large numbers of students to repeat a grade when they deserve promotion, permitting an injustice attributable to measurement error? 3. As many as several thousand students will have to repeat a grade unless they complete a six-week remedial course starting in July. 4. A child who still failed the test after three chances would be subject to repeating third grade. 5. But for students at the bottom of the class, a poor score will be a factor in deciding whether they repeat the grade. 6. Clinton deliberately couched it as a proposal for making children repeat grades, to please the most conservative listeners. 7. Earlier this year, one mother tried to qualify her second grader for the test by saying he was not so smart and could easily repeat first grade. 8. He had to repeat seventh grade, and this school year his low grades kept him from going out for the basketball team. 9. If the students did not pass a second exam at the end of summer school, they would repeat the grade. 10. Other players from Africa and Spain acknowledged having graduated or repeating entire grades once arriving in the United States. |