No wonder so many educrats eagerly embrace the concept of systemic racism. An all purpose excuse for the abysmal job that most inner city schools do for their victims students. Of course it has no explanation why blacks as a group did for better in school before the culture went to hell, before their illegitimacy rate reached seventy percent and when most teachers were actually interested in teaching instead of being union drones and Leftist propagandists, a time when racism was real and overt, instead of an all purpose excuse for failure.
Why was he allowed to go up a year if he wasn’t passing each grade?
Maybe it would have hurt his feelings and self esteem if stayed back? Just throwin’ it out there…
Social promotion.
It’s the response to the inability of schools to force kids to do work– it’s quite likely that a lot of the kids who were lower were physically not present at the school.
If you’re not allowed to remove someone from the school, and you’re not allowed to keep them in a class because you physically cannot have 3/4 of the prior year remaining in lower grades, social promotion is the only option.
Stupid rules have stupid results. (My school had “Alternative School”– a way to remove folks who were not functioning in the primary, be it because they were in jail or Just Not Working.)
Reading the article, his mom sounds pretty angry with the school, but it’s also clear she had a role in it too. As a home school dad, I know more about my kids’ education than most, but she seemed pretty oblivious and blamed the school for it. Probably a case of generational failure in the school system. Teach one student badly, then they don’t know the questions to ask when they’re the parents.
Something I have learned in years of teaching: you can raise the bar to the point where it is too high for students to reach it. But the only way to lower the bar so that no one goes below it is to just give full points for doing literally nothing. Even if the class has a policy of “put your name on this piece of paper and you are guaranteed at least a C” you will still see many students fail.
Beyond that, you can get into situations where more students fail in a ridiculously easy class than in a harder one. The reason is that once your standards become so low that they are insulting students either will give up because they don’t see the point, or refuse to do even the small amount of work you require of them because they know you’ll lower the bar even further down.
Theres heaps of parents out there who expect the school to raise their kids. Even in private schools! (eg, those parents that blame the school for their child spending endless hours on social media AT HOME)….But I would think that unless the school can prove they have repeatedly brought the mother in and explained to her their concern for her sons poor academic performance, then total blame goes on the school. They were the ones advancing him a grade without merit.
There are ways of improving matters, but they require doing mortal injury to certain vested interests, all of which make use of the Democratic Party as their electoral vehicle, so nothing will be done in Maryland. As for Bitc* McConnell’s Fredocon Donorist Party, they do nothing as a matter of course except enact bon bons for business lobbies and tax cuts which have to be reversed later because there are invariably enough careerist Republicans in gatekeeper positions to pass the necessary spending reductions.
Still, if somewhere you get a Republican governor inclined to accomplish something, job 1 should be to shut down the state teachers’s colleges, blow up their physical plant, and pass a state law that no school district is obligated to hire the issue of those awful institutions.
to prevent the necessary spending reductions.
There are truant officers who make home visits. The parents are interviewed by the officer and they have to prove that they have done every thing they can to send the child to school. If the explanation is not satisfactory the parents are in trouble with the law.
I apologize in advance. This evening, the wrath is strong in my silly psyche.
Y’all miss the point!
Math, science, History, etc. are racist. The solution: brain bleach everybody with CRT.