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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the open house, I understood that they routinely hold kids back. If a child does not want to repeat the grade, they have to leave, so technically you cannot fault the school or call the practice illegal, as the parent is choosing to withdraw.

Most public schools do not hold kids back even if they are way behind. [b]Both are problematic in their own different ways[/b].  [/quote]

I actually struggle to see what is problematic about holding back students who are behind. [/quote]

Mississippi declared that any third grader who couldn't pass a state reading test automatically flunked third grade. The result? Test scores went through the roof.

“Mississippi is a huge success story and very exciting,” David Deming, a Harvard economist and education expert, told me. What’s so significant, he said, is that while Mississippi hasn’t overcome poverty or racism, it still manages to get kids to read and excel.

“You cannot use poverty as an excuse. That’s the most important lesson,” Deming added. “It’s so important, I want to shout it from the mountaintop.” What Mississippi teaches, he said, is that “we shouldn’t be giving up on children.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/opinion/mississippi-education-poverty.html

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Wow that is impressive.  [/quote]

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