Video games also don't have social promotion or enforced curriculum "progression". If you die in the first level of a video game, you play it repeatedly until you legitimately merit entering the second level.
If you get a mediocre grade on a math test, even a failure, we shove you into the next subject in the curriculum. When you start failing that because new math builds on mastery of old math, we tell you you're not a math person and should probably major in Literature.
Then we go complain to the other math teachers that students are lazy and apathetic, and ask each-other how it is that math PhD students manage to spontaneously generate from such piles of shit.
If you get a mediocre grade on a math test, even a failure, we shove you into the next subject in the curriculum. When you start failing that because new math builds on mastery of old math, we tell you you're not a math person and should probably major in Literature.
Then we go complain to the other math teachers that students are lazy and apathetic, and ask each-other how it is that math PhD students manage to spontaneously generate from such piles of shit.