Do you think more students should be held back US? Would holding back more students for failure to complete work help solve the problem of kids graduating high school without being able to read?Are standards too low for students?
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Mort The Conqueror
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I think so. Schools seem more concerned with not hurting anyone's feelings or harming their self esteem than education and work ethic.
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Standards are too low in the U.S. If you held kids back, we'd have graduates bringing their kids to see them graduate. If teachers made more money, and entertainers less, that might help our educational sytem.
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The problem is that the system expects too little and teachers have been hampered (or as we say in Texas --hogtied) from dispersing appropriate discipline. Schools are hugely expensive social clubs that turn out the occasional brilliant kid (those who really want to learn). We are turning into a third world country--quickly.
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I definitly think any student who doesn't preform to average grade level or who doesn't have the mental maturity or shows behavioral problems should be held back. That said I think we need earlier intervention when a student seems to be strugling to find out what the problem is so it can be fixed early on. I know it would have helped me if they would have taken the time to ask me what was wrong when I stopped going in second grade instead of holding me back a year. I also think we need to stop dumbing down our system and get rid of all that constant testing that does nothing, but interfer with teaching the subjects as they should be. This holds true for behavioural standards too. It's time for schools to stop worrying about making a child feel bad about doing poorly o feeling left out and start pushing them to excell both achedemicily and socially again. I also think we need to give the power to control the classroom back to the teachers and have parents start showing them the respect they deserve. I think once we start doing that we'll start seeing a big change in our educational system.
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