Keeping the kids from advancing is an early form of the strategy of bringing up the uneducated voters the Dems desperately rely upon.
Jeff Foxworthy:
A kid said: “One good thing about Dad being held back to take the fifth grade over again is now we’ll be able to walk to school together every day.”
The kids are better off never going to school. The schools brainwash them to vote Dem and hate the GOP.