Originally Posted by Neapolitan

Don't assume it's either laziness or dumbness he's not doing well. There are many things that can affect reading, like ADD or dyslexia etc. Because if he was held back (for whatever reason they give) and one of those issues are not address then he will still struggle with them.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.