Quite a few people in my secondary school were behind a year. It’s not that common in the UK to have to repeat a school year but that school did seem to attract “troubled” youths and people with bizarre home lives.
After that I went to sixth form where one guy I knew dropped out because he scored so low on his first set of exams (worth a quarter of our final grades). This was bizarre because results for those exams across the year group were an abomination. Apparently he was planning to re-enroll the next year despite that being against school policy. We never saw him again.
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Quite a few people in my secondary school were behind a year. It’s not that common in the UK to have to repeat a school year but that school did seem to attract “troubled” youths and people with bizarre home lives.
After that I went to sixth form where one guy I knew dropped out because he scored so low on his first set of exams (worth a quarter of our final grades). This was bizarre because results for those exams across the year group were an abomination. Apparently he was planning to re-enroll the next year despite that being against school policy. We never saw him again.