Comments on: Four Years To Reverse A Bad Decision?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:12:00 +0000

If we pass students who haven’t mastered the material in the previous grade we have to create a remedial track for them. On top of that, we have to get real and create vocational options in high school because a MAJOR reason for failing classes is that the student is not interested in the curriculum being offered.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:21:00 +0000

Correct and just wait until your name is published again in the newspaper with those results.

By: Labellavita24

Labellavita24 — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:48:00 +0000

Unfortunately, promotion is based only on standarizied tests and if the student passed his or her classes throughout the year with an 80 average and screws up on those ridiculous tests, that student has to go to summer school. However, if the student fails ALL his or her classes and passes the standardized test, YIPEEE, that student goes on to the next grade without knowing anything. The mayor and the chancellor state that social promotion has ended. Really???

By: claudius

claudius — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 09:13:00 +0000

No surprise here. What Bloomberg-Klein-Walcott don’t know about education would fill a book – wait, it already has by Diane Ravitch among others! But social promotion does present problems from my perspective as a high school teacher. By the time these students reach me (where there has never been any official social promotion policy) and they fail to pass the Regents, high school teachers are blamed without consideration that many of these students have been socially promoted all along. Welcome to the “failing school”. Personally, I believe social promotion should be ended,but only if those students are identified as needed special education services or classes, especially if they are being left back more than one year. No doubt this frequently does not happen, or parents refuse special education services. So either way with or without social promotion, there remains a failure in educational policy in NYC.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:32:00 +0000

The idea that promoting children that don’t meet the standards for promotion is not letting them slip through the cracks, to me, is the silliest thing I’ve ever heard. Pushing them along, whether or not the deserve to move on, is what REALLY is letting them slip through the cracks.

How will that child survive if they continue to fall short of the standards and end up a 12th grader that couldn’t legitimately get out of 9th grade?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:02:00 +0000

Pushing them through is ACTUALLY letting the slip through the cracks. HELPING THEM LEARN is actually DEALING with the problem. Cooperation from family and teacher and child is required.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:01:00 +0000

If your nephew was held back, maybe someone needed to step in one of the three times and helped him to pass. But great that he learns that he’ll be pushed through whether he works at it or not. You aren’t doing him any favors.