First grade is the best time to hold them back.
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Social promotion is why we have high school graduates who can’t read or write on better than a 5th grade level.
Besides - if states did away with social promotion the BLM crowd would scream “RACISM” at every turn as blacks would be held back but not white kids.
This “social promotion” garbage is the cause from a couple of generations of adults barely “semi-literate”. Those slow readers, promoted to the next grade, are condemned to fall further and further behind the other students.
They were spared the “shame” of being “kept back”, and forced to live with the real shame of lagging being their fellow students, further behind the year. Eventually, frustration and bad feeling result in another drop-out.
The “social engineering” of social promotions is doing permanent harm to thousands of youngsters, having been cheated out of the opportunity to progress at their pace, and eventually catch up and become a fully literate adult.
From the foundation of the country unti the moodern EDUCATORS replaced teachers, the American school systems produced the most highly educated and able population in history.
Today, the main effort of the EDUCATORS is to explain why so many thousands of students are failing. They are not being given a chance to work and succeed.
"If they can read and write simple sentences and can count to 500 that is all the Poles proles need to know. That and to obey their German New World Order masters."
H. Himmler G. Soros
Some 15 or so years ago, the Missouri legislature passed a massive bill—100s of pages—overhauling the educational system of the state. Even better, they did all of this in just a matter of days. Then it turns out that a Representative or Senator had snuck in an item that required that 3rd graders had to be able to read at the 3rd-grade level before moving on to the 4th grade.
First off, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, ordered schools to ignore the law as plainly written (remind you of ObamaCare?) until the legislature repealed the offending bit. Visions of 15-year olds sitting in 3rd-grade desks were part of the scare tactics. That and the disparate effect on minority students that the law would have, won the day. Thankfully, it is still possible for illiterates to “graduate” from high school in Missouri.
Because I was consistently bored to death in school, I would frequently have convenient "stomach flu" and would miss school. At the end of the year it was determined that I would have to attend summer school to make up the missed attendance.
The only thing I remember from that lost summer was an art class during which I created a construction-paper poster featuring London's Big Ben clock tower.
The irony is that the public education system spent resources to insure that I attended the required number of days, despite having no academic issues whatever. I don't know if any of the students in my class needed remedial instruction in reading, but the resource was instead squandered and completely ruined my summer.