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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes but all they are giving kids is needs improvement and not an F grade. I'm wondering if they just push the kid up to the next grade instead of failing them?[/quote] You mean repeat a grade? I think it would depend on the school. It also isn't the worse thing in the world if a kid needs to repeat.[/quote] There is a lot of research that makes it clear that retention of elementary school students causes lasting damage.[/quote] There is a lot of research that being below grade-level in reading, writing, and math by the middle-school years leads to kids dropping out of high-school (or graduating as functionally illiterate in the better cases). I say this as a former teacher of middle-school whose students were 13 and could not do simple addition and subtraction (double digits) without counting on a number line (or their fingers). Don't even ask what their writing looked like... If only they'd been held back when they were young. Less stigma, more motivation for the parents to get involved, better opportunity for the system to serve their needs... by middle-school your track is pretty much set.[/quote]
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