A lot of controversies are going on about "social promotions" in the new York school system, and it is difficult to guess what educational policy will be in this new era. In some ways it depends on who will be the next schools chancellor and also it depends on the statistics during those "social promotions" years, if they will show low grade scores for the schools followed by social promotions.
Therefore, the schools should end this educational practice of "social promotions" because ignoring these problems won't make them disappear, and pupils who don't absorb material from last year won't be able to grasp it next year. The schools have to define the "missing needed skills" in children.
Furthermore, if teachers are ignoring student's failings, if teachers are ignoring student's failings, it makes the problem wors
Besides ignoring these academic problems, passing students from one class to another is maintaining academic mediocrity. As stated in USA Today in 1998, the "theory behind these social promotions is that children who are held back in school suffer damaging blows to their selfesteem"(305). Because of that the learning process was affected. If child wouldn't be able to absorb material from the last class he had to repeat the class, which should have improve his learning process. For example, my neighbor's son, George is in the sixth grade. He is always behind with his homework and he fails most of his tests. This happened because in the fifth grade he missed school a lot and he didn't learn the material from the fifth grade. Now his parents have to hire a tutor to study with him so that he won't be held behind.
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