In my wife's experience as a teacher, it's not the teacher who is incentivized to push students through, or even the one doing the pushing. If the parent wants

In my wife's experience as a teacher, it's not the teacher who is incentivized to push students through, or even the one doing the pushing. If the parent wants the student to advance to the next grade, the system says that they advance, often over the strenuous objections from the teacher who knows the student has no business advancing.