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[quote=Anonymous]I can't speak for PG, but I will say that when I was teaching middle school in MD several years ago, there was definitely heat put on teachers to keep the "pass rate" high in their classes and to greatly curtail the number of students per year who have to repeat a grade. At the end of a given school year, I might have 18 to 20 out of 125 kids who failed my course for the year. Within our grade level, there might be 11 or 12 kids out of 125 who were failing MULTIPLE subjects - math, English, Science, History, etc. across the board, including many with year end scores nowhere near the 60% needed to pass with a D. We were told during the last quarter that we could not fail more than 2 or 3 kids maximum for the year, regardless of their grades. The teachers were expected to come in on Saturdays to afford students the chance to redo work they did not turn in the first time it was due, any late work had to be accepted and EXTRA work given to improve their grades. Summer school was offered to all who were failing 3 or more subjects, and even then if 7 or 8 kids did not complete that, guess what? They still passed, usually for "social reasons". Only the absolute worst two or three were retained. I saw more kids passed on to the next grade who had no work ethic, no drive to improve to passing level, and who were far below grade level, who just got pushed along because too many 
 retentions made the school look bad. Part of the reason many of our high school graduates have marginal skills, at best. [/quote]

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