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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t see how having a bunch of 16 year olds in 7th grade helps anyone, anywhere. That’s what “end social promotion” means, in practical terms. It’s a terrible, terrible, terrible idea.[/quote]

Some of the other rich countries have much better ways of dealing with academic stragglers than the equity obsessed US.

I recently visited a highly diverse government primary school in London England where upper grades students who tested a year+ behind grade level were pulled out of mainstream classrooms for intensive instruction in core subjects.  The kids who were behind were taught separately in small group settings for half the school day.  These kids were required to attend after school and Sat morning tutoring and were only permitted to return to mainstream classes once they could test at grade level.  Was that such a horrible arrangement?  Such a thoughtful system to support academic stragglers would obviously take money, organization, political will to implement, but why not do it here in DC?  The arrangement seemed to be working very well for all concerned in the UK.[/quote]

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