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I suspect your experience comes from a more homogenous situation than DC.  I really struggle with how that would work in DC, where you will have a middle school student who is reading at a college level and who is ready for pre-Calc in the same classroom with another kid in the same grade who still struggles with reading and writing and who hasn't yet mastered long division.  There are some pretty huge divides to bridge here in DC - even a well-seasoned teacher would have a problem making this work effectively.  We have both a huge concentration of kids from severely dysfunctional and semiliterate homes as well as the kids coming from one of the biggest concentrations of PhDs in the nation.[/quote]
How is a kid who cannot read or has not mastered long division in middle school? Should that kid not have been retained in elementary to make sure he had the needed knowledge to go to middle school?[/quote]

That would be the case in Finland. They would not move up, they would repeat their grade and get extra help. It clearly does not work well to have such huge discrepancies in a middle school class, thus it would not and should not be allowed to happen.[/quote]

DC public schools do social promotion.  You get a passing grade basically for just showing up, and get promoted from grade to grade regardless of whether you did the work, mastered the material, or even if you didn't even try.  As such, there's no accountability, no work ethic instilled in students, no failure, no consequences, everything is just taken for granted, the "rewards" come for nothing.  And that's the case across the board in DC - I believe the only school in DC that does not do social promotion is BASIS DC PCS.[/quote]

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