They jumped me.

When I was in Primary 5, a new girl came to school, Olawunmi, my first love actually. I was hurrying to drop my bag in the class (as Chief latecomer) when the headmaster asked the school to read the multiplication table and Olawunmi missed a part as brilliant as she was.
Infuriated, the headmaster hurriedly smacked her and she shouted "they jumped me".

The principal sparked and spoke at length on why parents should never make pupils jump class because of situations like this.

However, what Olawunmi meant was that the class missed one of the numbers ( which they did).

I learnt two things that day- I will never allow double promotion.
And I had to protect Olawunmi.
We went on become closer and always fought for first with First or Second position. Junior and Ahmed battled for third and fourth.
Two of us represented school together. Eventually, secondary separated us and far away from each other's mind but the progress mentality never left.
Double promotion helps no one, especially the child who many will see not fully formed no matter how brilliant they were.