RE: Social Promotion

["Ron Force" <rforce@moscow.com>]

How much of the "social promotion" phenomenon is driven by the school and
how much by irate parents? The item you cited from Milwaukee was clearly a
parent taking advantage of school law to provide state funded care for their
disabled daughter. You may be familiar with the Kansas plagerism case, where
a teacher flunked a group of students for violating clearly published
standards.  As soon as the parents brought heat on the school board, they
backed down and threw the teacher to the wolves.

Higher standards are great, as long as they don't apply to my kid...

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Ron Force	      	  rforce@moscow.com
Moscow Idaho USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Danahy [mailto:JDANAHY@turbonet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:19 PM
> To: Vision2020
> Subject: Re: Social Promotion
>
>
> 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
>