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Shall this pupil be promoted from a fifth to a sixth year class or be "kept back" to repeat the year's work?
I know a first grader whose parents were informed early in the school year that he would be kept back because he read too poorly.
"If a person has worked hard and paid their dues, they shouldn't be kept back because of the color of their skin or ethnicity," said Mr. Currie.
The main disagreement between Mr. Bloomberg and his critics is the mayor's insistence that young students should be kept back on the basis of a single test.
White children are more likely held out; black children are more likely to enter but to be kept back by school officials to repeat kindergarten.
Susan King, from Norfolk, now educates her son Tom at home after battling for him to be kept back a year.
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One was kept back.
"Delegates are kept back by political gridlock.
Did you feel there were times you were kept back or personally discriminated against?
They'd been kept back in school, or had started school later than their classmates.
Some men tried to get into that boat, but were kept back.
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