Schools
By kitkat1
@kitkat1 (1227)
Canada
March 26, 2007 12:03pm CST
The school system around hear really is much to be desired. If the kid is not working up to snuff they have this awful habit of not passing them into the next grade but placing them and they do this without parent permission. If you are not looking at the report card close enough to there grading status to see this then you kid get into the mess two or three years down the road where they cant read or do math well enough and it just snowballs till they are so frustrated and give up. I have to remind the school on a regular basis if my kids are not working up to there grade level i want them held back and even then it is hard. Do other schools in different places do this kind of thing? I think it is a terrible policy.
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3 responses
@youdontsay (3497)
• United States
4 Apr 07
Our children's education is not the sole responsibility of the schools. Parents need to be involved and to know what is going on with their kids. I believe that children who can't pass the grade should be given tutoring through the summer and be retested before school starts. If they still don't make the grade, then hold them back.
But if parents are involved they will know when the child starts to get behind and can work with them to get them up to the standard. Parenting is really a big job. People tend to become parents without having any idea what they are getting into. It is an obligation that shouldn't be taken lightly.
I don't think it is realistic to expect one teacher to be completely responsible for the education of 30 or more students at a time. Parents must take some of that responsibility by working with the child and keeping track of what they are doing in school.
If the school is not doing its share, the parents have to intervene at the administrators level to see that it does. We can't just send off our kids for eight hours a day and not have any connection with what they are doing there. It isn't just a place to "store" the children until you get home from work or whatever.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
4 Apr 07
our schools got in trouble for things like this.they passed failing kids "just to get rid of them".
it finally stopped when a fully illiterate person made it to college.i'll tell you though,i was absolutely amazed by the system he came up with to hide it.
he was extremely good at association.
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@kathy77 (7485)
• Australia
27 Mar 07
Oh you are right but as for all of my children I always check how they are doing but if the children in the school, have problems with their schooling then they certainly will have to repeat the year over so that they do not have these kinds of problems with the year above them. I do not allow my children to stay back when they were at school but to bring home their work and I personally will teach them what they do not know I did this to all of my children and they passed them exams wtih flying colours, but certainly not due to the teachers.
