Only reason I can think of is if they actually didn’t pass the class, never learned much of the material and were just passed through because the system was tired of dealing with them. Has that ever happened before?
I’m not sure the schools were tired of dealing with them.
Maybe if they flunked minorities they’d be called racist.
I know we had experience with a minority student elementary school and our interaction with the teachers and and administration were appalling. They had no interest in educating the kids or even whether the kids attended school. If the middle schools feeding this high school are similar, then the policy may not be such a bad idea.
This school was not more than 2 miles from some of the best middle schools in Denver. But it might as well have been a different planet.