Alby_da_Wolf on 09 July 2020
18, almost 19, never repeated classes (in Italy, unless you start earlier, you enter high school in the year you turn 14, and unless repeating it lasts 5 years). One year I avoided repeating by a whisker, I had to pass September repair exams in Italian, History, Philosophy and Ancient Greek to be admitted to the fourth year. That Summer my late maternal granny, that studied Ancient Greek in high school and was the first of her class, revised it with me for the fifth time, after having done it with my uncle, my mom and my cousins. Back then she was 76 and she complained that, unlike in the past, she had to consult the dictionary every now and then. 
