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Originally Posted by foodcritic  So in essence what your saying is that by keeping kids in skool until there 21(me thinks thats the leagal cutt-off) so that they can have accumulated enough time/credit to graduate is not social promotion. They figured out a way to cover up the obvious. Heck why not keep them in skool till there 25 or 30. I am sure by that time they would have been able to get them graduated. UNBELIEVABLE  |
Isn't "Social Promotion" where poor little Johnnie or Janie is
promoted to save their self esteem?
Whereas "grade retention" is where you get held
back due to poor grades?
So, if they are holding kids
back, and then not accounting for them when they graduate (it's: "grade retention" not "social promotion") where do they go?
I don't understand where you account for the kids that are held back in such huge numbers. It also seems to me that the system is actually cracking down on "social promotion" and making kids study better or they
will be held back due to "grade retention".
