California invented ‘social promotion’ over 20 years ago. Grade school teachers have not been able to hold a child back, unless the parents signed authorization, since the 90’s. This is just the logical next step. And the Dems in California, and the USA, benefit from the lack of education of the masses.
I don’t know if NJ requires parents’ approval to hold students back, but they’ve been “socially promoting” in NJ cities for decades. When I had to correct a co-worker’s lack of capitalizing street names, her response was to simply start typing everything in all caps; she had probably never read a book or newspaper, and was functionally illiterate. A shocking number of urban blacks are in the same boat, which has helped our non-English speaking invaders from the south take their jobs so easily.