[RetiredScientist]

The school made the hard choice. It does not serve a failing student to give them what was called in my day "a social promotion". The hard truth is that many students are not doing work at grade level. Lying about that serves no one.

Many students won't have the math background for a skilled trade, and certainly will not have the skills to enter a computer science or engineering program. Until the student takes "ownership" of their situation and does the work, the taxpayers' funding is being squandered.

Like it our not, there is competition for good jobs. The current trend of "ghosting" - not showing up for work and having the common decency to resign - means that HR departments will need work agreement documents that make expectations for continued promotion contingent upon written standards agreed upon by both employer and employee.

[Rummyfan]

Many students won't have the math background for a skilled trade, and certainly will not have the skills to enter a computer science or engineering program.

I recently finished an on-line intro course for cybersecurity (I took it mainly out of boredom, the lockdown and all...). it was eight sessions of three-and-a-half-hours each. The ninth and last session there was a final exam. Just prior to the exam, one of the students asked 'what is the network card?'. This after over twenty-four hours of class sessions. I was astounded.

[Rusty0604]

“Many students won’t have the math background for a skilled trade, and certainly will not have the skills to enter a computer science or engineering program”

Some of them won’t have the skills to work at McDonalds.

[wrcase]

They don’t care. That’s what welfare and drug sales are for. “The Wire” was a documentary.