Social promotion strategies that the government and private institutions in Thailand currently follow are a fairly recent occurrence. The majority of the people that I interviewed, which included teachers and administrators at Assumption College Primary Section, informed me that this practice started around twenty years ago. I was finally able to obtain an exact year from the academic office at Assumption College Primary Section. The social promotion policy in Thailand was implemented in 1978. Before this, students that did not have a sufficient level of mastery were obligated to go to summer school for 21 weeks in order to achieve mastery of the subjects that they had failed. If the students did not possess sufficient mastery of a subject at the end of summer term, then they were held back to complete the grade level again. There were no limitations of how many years the children could be held back. Due to social pressures involved with being retained and having to redo the same grade again, the no fail policy was incorporated into the school system by the Ministry of Education of Thailand (Cadias, 2008).