My old co-worker is a teacher, he told me that parents actually came up to him and were like "Can you please fail my kid?" and he was like "I can't, they won't let me". The problem with not failing kids/youth is that you can't let them advance if they're not ready. Can you imagine if people couldn't fail engineering? We'd have a lot of buildings falling down. Failure shouldn't be seen as a negative, but seen as where you went wrong. If you don't care enough to walk into class and do work, then you're a failure in life and need to be put back on track. The only time I feel a student should maybe get by, is if they honestly tried their best and their teacher diligently worked to help them. I understand there are some things that people will just not understand, but if they made the effort I'd consider passing them.
