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Reply to "What’s your plan on middle school promotion day?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow! I had no idea other schools had actual ceremonies. Ours has nothing. Kids go to Hershey Park as a field trip toward the end of the year but no ceremony or anything at all besides that.[/quote] It’s been a rough rule of thumb in MoCo the past twenty years that the more fuss there over promotion to 9th grade, the higher the FARMs rate because of the correlation between poverty and low rates of high school and college graduation. In higher SES communities, finishing middle school is not viewed as an accomplishment. For communities with a lot of families in distress, it takes a huge amount of effort to get a child to that moment and that is recognized with pomp and swag elsewhere reserved for baccalaureates and up. If your school does nothing other than the eighth grade trip, it’s probably a sign community confidence that students will graduate high school. They’ll get their walk and flowers in four years. [/quote]
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