Re: Moscow schools: social promotion

["Robert Probasco" <rcprobas@email.com>]

From: "Mike Curley" <curley@turbonet.com>
> It is true that there is no [Moscow district] policy on social promotion.  

Thanks for verifying this, Mike.  Maybe we can now progress to some rational discussions.

I reiterate I am not endorsing either retention or social promotion (two failed practices).  

My preference is for a policy which encourages and rewards students for learning, rather than the mind-dulling policies which induce boredom.    

> The district is in the process of aligning its curriculum ... [snip]

A worthy and ongoing goal.  When K.C. Albright showed me the plan, I read it and returned my comments to him.  But my central conclusion was they are focusing on the leaves without seeing the trees or the forest.  Maybe they will prove me wrong.

> ...the combination of all those events is 
> that whatever occurred in the past is  
> different now and will likely be 
> substantially different in the near future.

Quite so, so let us continue our vigilence. 	

> Education is not a one-size-fits-all
proposition.

Absolutely true, yet every fifth grader is given the same math text.  Does anyone else
see something wrong with this picture?

Bob Probasco

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