Anyone from the school would threaten me with something going on my permanent record. From second grade on, I said "you're the one that has to carry it." I'd been told that for already two years and realized I would pass with my grades anyway or, when I got in third grade figured out that the threat of "you'll have to learn it again next year" also meant "you'll have to try to teach it to me again" which I always replied. I spent so much time in trouble that I didn't care any more by the end of first grade. I could do the work just fine but they were not very good at doing theirs