A proposed bill in Michigan would help prevent some third graders from being held back if they fail the state’s reading assessment.
Third graders are currently required to pass the assessment in order to move on to fourth grade. However, Senate Bill 12 has the backing of at least one local superintendent who tells WSBT the test shouldn’t be the determining factor and that it applies too much pressure on students. The state’s superintendent agrees.
The bill is moving forward after a 5-to-1 vote in the Senate Education Committee and will now be considered by the full state Senate.
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Another way to pass along failing students. If you are behind in third grade how will you do in fourth if you can’t read I would guess not very well. It used to be only athletes that got passed along now everyone can pass by failing ain’t America great.
Can’t read but get passed along anyway. The dumbing down of America.
These are no longer institutions of learning…and have not been for a long time as is evidenced by the fact that they are attempting to legislate failure as success.
If a child can not read at level and you pass the child on, that poor child. Doomed every day to struggle to learn but can not. I was in charge of large Navy technical schools. One student was to be expelled. They brought him into my office to make a determination. I pointed out a dictionary on my desk. Pick it up and read me the definition of effort I said. He burst into tears. He could not read. He played football for the University of Tennessee as a freshman before entering the Navy He had faked it some how ( we taught him to read and he was a huge success) FIND OUT WHY THEY CAN NOT READ AND HELP THEM
There has to be incentive to improve. Simply being passed along is not incentive. Expectations and standards are.
This is what happens when education takes a back seat to indoctrination and wokeism.