June 25, 2005
Public: Is it Education or Babysitting
In San Ysidiro it appears to be a large dose of the latter:
SAN YSIDRO – Today, San Ysidro Middle School will recognize 516 eighth-graders in a ceremony to promote them to high school, regardless of whether they passed middle school.First, they shouldn't be walkin with the rest. Second, can we really justify taking your and my money to use for a glorified babysitting service?More than a fourth of them did not.
In today's ceremony, 143 students who either flunked classes, didn't earn at least a 2.0 grade-point average, or missed too many days of school will march alongside those who did everything required of them.
Via Overtaken By Events.
Posted by Steve on June 25, 2005Here in Texas we have standardized tests and if they don't pass, they don't graduate or get promoted. This year there was a good number of seniors in Dallas that didn't pass and couldn't graduate. So of course there was a lot complaining about feeling like 12 years had been wasted.
Not once did anyone bring up who's fault that was, just that we were supposed to feel bad for them and let them graduate.
They didn't.
Posted by tommy at June 25, 2005 6:39 PMThere is no point in allowing them to go further if they haven't mastered what came before. They are being set up for failure so they'll drop out of school and no longer be a bother to the system.
Most colleges are now re-running high school during the freshman year to get student up to speed for college.
Posted by Bryan at June 25, 2005 10:41 PM
