Originally Posted by Bostonian
Our schools have no ability grouping in math until 7th grade, so I wonder how they would "punish" my son for skipping some work.
In our case recess was taken away. All missed work had to be done during the recess. But now when DS10 is in 6th grade, but takes 7th grade math, they would move him back to the 6th grade math for missing work or low scores on tests.