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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone actually read the draft? I am a teacher. I am a third grade teacher. It is saying that students must read at or above grade level at the end of third grade in order to be promoted to fourth grade. It needs to be demonstrated by an assessment. If they do not show they are at or above grade level then they repeat third grade. My students last year came in VERY low and they left VERY low. 60 percent of my students left third grade below grade level in Reading. How do we retain that many students? Are parents ok with retaining their child in third grade? Students at that age know and will talk about the students that are retained because they won’t be in their grade next year. I am not sure I like this plan. There will be so much pressure on a child to do well on a test in third grade in order to pass to the next grade.[/quote]

Schools should be able to teach kids to read by third grade. They chose to abdicate that responsibility and a lot of kids are suffering. There has to be some incentive to actually teach kids how to read. Of course, this answer may not be practical but the impact of failing kids like this should not be understated or compared to hurting their feelings by holding them back.[/quote]

I completely agree with you. As a third grade teacher, I can not play catch up though. I had too many students on a first grade level. Repeating third grade will not help those students. [b]I just do not think that retention is the answer.[/b] [/quote]

The folks who don't believe in retention have had their way for a number of decades.  It is much more painful to graduate someone from high school who has been faking their way through the last ten years of school.  That is NOT compassion.  Yes, special intervention will be needed for this class, not just a repetition of 3rd grade, and they should be put together in an intensively staffed 3+ classroom that focuses on literacy (and more than likely remedial math as well.)  It would be even better to have focused attention on these kids BEFORE 3rd grade, but maybe that is too much to ask for  :roll:

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