Elementary Class of GTS (Repeaters)

There have been always repeaters of the first or second semester of Elemntary Japanese at COD. Reasons are various: withdrew from the class before, assigned bad letter grade (including F) from the class before, chose the Pass/Fail option before, reviewing before moving on, took the class long time ago, or simply enjoying the class. Repeating the course is one of the luxuary choice allowed at a community college.
COD Japanese courses change textbooks quite often for repeaters to experience the new learning environment. Besides, GTS gets bored if keep using the same textbook over and over. Any instructors are NOT teaching a textbook of any subject but teaching any subject WITH a textbook. So it shouldn't matter which textbook can be used. For Japanese learning, textbooks published in Japan has insufficient information for students in America while textbooks published here in the U.S. contains almost too much trivial information. Either one is good as long as an instructor knows HOW to deal with each textbook.
Repeating is often encouraged since learning speed of students varies. Repeating is good for solidify knowledge and skills as well. Language study requires a lot of time and effort, so don't be discouraged by meaningless frustrations! Continuing study is THE Key for success!
Don't be afraid of repeating the same course (there is no such thing as the same course anyways)! Be proud of striving for self-achievement continuously!