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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It comes down to money, resources AND ed policy.  If you're an older parent of school-age kids who attended public schools, you probably remember a time when the policy was to require weeks of summer school of students who could not work at grade level for them to be permitted to advance to the next grade.  Whatever happened to that worthy policy? I don't remember parents having to sign off on kids being held back a grade in the 70s.

My question is why are our ed leaders mostly content to let students who meet academic standards, or exceed them, to pay the price of sitting alongside classmates who have not met standards into the upper elementary grades, in middle school and even in high school (at least at Wilson). Let's call social promotion for what is, criminal negligence in supporting our society's future leaders who aren't from well-off families and/or don't reside in tony zip codes.

In essence, social promotion gives private school and well-off students yet another leg up on the ladder of life, help that too many high-performing poor and moderate income students no longer get.  Forcing teachers to a lackluster middle at the expense of high performers gets the US nowhere in particular.[/quote]

One more policy that eliminates the middle class.[/quote]

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