Posted on 02/16/2011 9:18:16 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The Detroit Public School system (DPS) is one of the worse in the nation. Its 59% graduation rate puts it at the bottom of major school systems in the nation. Unfortunately, that is the good news. The bad news is that because “grade fixing” appears to be uncomfortably common DPS students are not being honestly achieving even their meager accomplishments because of “social promotions.”
The problems of “social promotion” – pushing students along so they don’t have to feel the embarrassment of being left back – are coming home to the DPS system.
Recognition of the evils of social promotion is beginning to spread nationwide. Last week the Oklahoma State Senate received a bill to prohibit social promotion.
The bill’s sponsor said, “Social promotion sets a child up for failure. Through the third grade, children are learning to read—after that, they read to learn. If they can’t read, they simply fall further behind. Senate Bill 348 ends social promotion and provides remediation to get those children back on track for success.”
Grades being changed
A Detroit fifth grade teacher who taught summer school found that her final grade sheet which included failing grades for most of her 40 students was simply reversed. “Kids know when they didn’t earn a grade. And they’ll know they don’t have to do anything the next year because they’re going to get moved along,” she said.
Another teacher reported that students who were absent more than 20 times had their grades changed to Cs; another student who got an F after 37 absences now stands accused of assaulting his teacher.
A matter of money over scholarship
“……why ……social promotion a teacher explained …..concern that failing students will stop coming to school and that would cost the DPS $7,660 in federal/state aid per student…..
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Quel surprise.
Then us tutors have to pick up the slack! Been seeing this for years. Social promotion is a terrible policy.
“How do I reach thees keeds?!” - Eric Cartman
Amazing how close South Park is to reality sometimes.
The cause of Detroits problems being that which we dare not name.
Better to close all the Detroit skools, fire the teachers, administrators and staff, and burn the skool buildings to the ground. The last item will be done by the students as they return to their feral tribal turf. Allahu Akbar, y'all!
Set up independent auditors, who have no connection to the education establishment, and have them test what the kids have learned, then pay the schools and teachers accordingly. Results will change.
1. You can't fix stupid.
2. Modern compulsory, government-funded education cannot and was never intended to create well-rounded, self-sufficient, thinking adults.
Detroit is becoming the model for the country. Can’t build a decent car? Have the government bail you out. Can’t pass the tests? Cheat and change the scores. They should start a school for pickpockets there. Call it THE DEMOCRAT FUNDING SCHOOL.
So we hear that the SAT Test is biased against blacks. I guess it is, in a way, as Straight-A students in Detroit still get crappy grades on it.
...so I guess we need to get rid of it.
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