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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mississippi also holds kids back in 3rd grade if they are not on grade level, which I think we need to do in FCPS. Kids who are not on grade level should be retained and the earlier they do it the more likely kids will catch up. We are promoting kids for emotional health who then fall further behind, which cannot be good for their emotional health or academic confidence. [/quote]

Surprisingly, or not, once the parents realized that Mississippi was going to hold fast with holding kids back in 3rd grade if they could not read or do math, the parents started engaging more at home to make sure that didn't happen.  The embarrassment over their kid failing a grade was a huge motivation for parents to make sure their kids were reading

Fewer kids don't meet milestones, and schools that traditionally struggled saw achievement rates and literacy soar.

They also reinstated a robust, professional trades and apprentiship program in high schools, which raised achievement and lowered truancy.

Removing trades from high school over the idea that every kid should go to college was a tremendous failure.[/quote]

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