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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What they used to do is have kids repeat a grade if they were struggling to master the material.  [b]Then it was decided that this was somehow too cruel to kids.[/b]  Though, nobody seems to have figured out that it's even more cruel to kids to set them up for lifelong failure by not giving them a second chance to catch up, than it is to have them suffer the great indignity or whateverthefuck of having a second chance.  The bleeding hearts these days don't seem to even want to give kids a chance to catch up via reading labs, math labs, summer programs, lest it make them feel singled out and feel different than their peers.  Touchy-feely has pushed learning to the sidelines, IMHO.[/quote]

Actually it was decided (based on actual research) that retention did not improve academic performance but did increase the likelihood that the student would drop out of school.

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar08/vol65/num06/Grade-Retention.aspx[/quote]

Look, you're really not winning either way.

Given academics already went by the wayside when you started doing social promotion, what's the fucking difference whether a kid drops out of school in 10th grade versus stays through 12th and graduates, but really only got an 8th grade education because he fell behind, was lost/gave up long prior and was only carried along by the inertia of social promotion?  It's mostly already a sham at that point.  The only point seems to be to keep them off the street.  Used to be that if they dropped out early, at least they might find a job somewhere but even that's screwed at this point.
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