The No Child Left Behind Act tries to solve this problem. The federal government is pressuring public schools to set minimum standards that each student must pass before advancing to next grade.

However, in spite of these new laws, many states still have semi-automatic advancement based on student’s overall performance. Many schools consider a student’s "portfolio" of work, attendance record, or other mitigating factors. Based on these factors, school may advance students to next grade, even though they do poorly on their tests or read at a previous grade level.

For example, a dedicated California 7th-grade math teacher wrote to Dr. Laura Schlessinger, radio talk-show host, about this problem. She said that about 30 percent of her students did not do their daily homework assignments, but she could do nothing about this. That is because California Education code forbids teachers from "punishing" students for failing to do their homework.

She also said that students are "not retained" if they fail one class or fail all their classes. "Not retained" is a polite way of saying not left back.

Rufus King: (Said to be fifth most important person in founding of America by another researcher.)

I have also presented a great deal of possibility-thinking in regards to elite families and their noble lineages or genetic manipulations including Merovingians that include likes of Randolphs and Churchills. This is an incorporation of special people into their bloodlines beyond what Gardner documents in Genesis of Grail Kings. Lord Mountbatten may have known what I suspect is true, but few others could. Paschal Beverly Randolph, like his ancestor Peyton Randolph, almost certainly was one of top people in this foul and esoteric plot even if he was not part of Crowleyan Perdurabo ritualistic soul-grabbing which I have inside information or personal experience about. I have written about it in other books. It includes Thomas Jefferson who was given special tutelage by Newtonian alchemist by name of Professor Short for formative period of Jefferson’s education at William and Mary University. I will probably never have whole picture and yet this book will attempt to shed some light on these racial issues and genetic engineering they have engaged which surrounds Frederick Douglass and Thomas Jefferson. It was something I was once going to do in honor of my ancestor Rufus King who was first man in New York to publicly free his slaves. However I dropped project when I discovered some disturbing things about Thomas Jefferson who I had admired greatly and still feel is one of great people of recent history.