Re: RE: Social Promotion

["blackwidow@turbonet.com" <blackwidow@turbonet.com>]

What is your suggested alternative?

jcampbell

At Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:28:58 -0800, you wrote:
>Why not just admit that public education is a failure and move on?
Why are
>we, as a society, so fixated on public education as the only
solution for
>educating our kids?
>
>I was going to rant on social promotion, but the failure is really
>continuing funding of public schools.
>
>My argument was going to be that social promotion devalues a high
school
>diploma, but how much less value can a diploma have? All having one
means is
>you sat still and turned off your brain for 12 years. If the schools
want to
>hand them out to illiterate young adults, well, so be it.
>