Back to School: The Debate on Ending Automatic Promotion Looms Over Primary Schools

Today, the youngest students return to school to begin the third semester, which is considered the most crucial. Indeed, it is at the end of this last segment of the school year that their results will determine the trajectory of their future. However, this return is marked by an atmosphere of uncertainty: the Minister of Education announced that automatic promotion to the next grade could be abolished, a reform that for...