Repeating a school year will affect our children

While in primary school, repeating a class was frowned upon by all pupils. This is because the pupils who were forced to repeat a class were the ones who performed poorly in the previous end-year exams.

It was mostly the sole prerogative of teachers to choose the pupils who would repeat a class. Parents concurred with the teachers. I cannot remember even one instance where a parent questioned a teacher’s decision on the issue of their child repeating a class.