RE: Social Promotion

[thansen@moscow.com]

Greetings Visionaires -

Being a product of public education (culminating with a degree from a public 
university here in Moscow), I find these comments to be extremely offensive and 
prejudicial.


Are there any other "public schoolers" that feel the same was as I do out there?

Take care,

Tom Hansen

> 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.
> 


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