Re: Social Promotion

["John Danahy" <JDANAHY@turbonet.com>]

One result of social promotion is the endless rounds of standardized
testing, exit standards, grade level standards, and exit competency testing.
This is society's response to the failure of social promotion.
Just think where we could be if the funds spent on standards and testing
could be used for education?  It is unfortunate that we must rely on the
implementation of standards in our public school systems.
In Moscow, further response to social promotion can be seen in the Trustee's
recent actions to eliminate the "C average" rule for graduation and the
elimination of the "no pass, no play" policy for extra curricular
activities.

John Danahy
jdanahy@turbonet.com