[balrog666]

Why not just test all the students and promote each of them to the appropriate grade level?

[pepsionice]

This is the fix for a long-standing problem. In the period of 1700-1800s....you simply had to pass an exam and progress to next level or graduate. Everyone got into this attitude that you had to do it gradually in a 12-year period. It is quiet obvious that 5 percent of kids today are bored completely because of their capable level and they need to progress to a higher knowledge level. Why waste time and man-hours? Let the kid move up a year or two. If we could graduate 50 percent of all kids in 11 years or less...think of the savings across the whole spectrum. Fewer teachers, fewer classrooms, fewer problems.

[syriacus]

Why not just test all the students and promote each of them to the appropriate grade level?

Not a bad idea. I hope they still allow the smart kids to skip high school, even if the idea to test all students is not put into play.