96.18. Exceptionally, in the interest of a student who has not achieved the objectives or mastered the compulsory notional contents of elementary school education at the end of the period fixed by the basic school regulation for mandatory promotion to secondary school and with the consent of the student’s parents, the principal may, after consulting with the teacher, admit the student, as prescribed by regulation of the Minister, to elementary school education for an additional school year, if there are reasonable grounds to believe that such a measure is necessary to foster the student’s academic progress.
1997, c. 96, s. 13; 2006, c. 51, s. 92; 2020, c. 12020, c. 1, s. 3311.