<Li> No evidence of long - term academic benefit for retained students . </Li> <Li> Increased rates of dangerous behaviors such as drinking, drug abuse, crime, teenage pregnancy, depression, and suicide among retained students as compared with similarly performing promoted students . </Li> <Li> Danger to normally - progressing younger students in the class which the older student is required to repeat, when the intellectually - challenged older student is likely to possess a great level of physical development . </Li> <P> Critics of retention also note that retention is expensive for school systems: requiring a student to repeat a grade is essentially to add one student for a year to the school system, assuming that the student does not drop out . </P>

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