These kids were probably doing poorly in grade school. How many of them do you think can actually read and write? They think they know pronouns but they don’t. 5 will get you 10 that a lot of these kids should have been held back in grades years ago.
As for canceling it? That was wrong too. 5 kids worked hard and now those 5 are punished?
If they think they can increase the number by waiting a few weeks sounds more like administrative issues…
High School grad these days (at least where I live) is different then when I graduated about 35 years ago. Where just showing up and passing your classes meant you graduate. Now there are all sorts of other things you need to do to meet the requirements.
If it was purely grades then waiting a few more weeks isn’t going to change the numbers
It’s increased to 17 kids and they should hold the graduation for them.
The first success many kids have is spelling or own names. It must be brutal when there are a couple apostrophes and only one vowel. “Sounding it out” would be a nightmare.