I used to be a teacher. In my state, before COVID, 3rd grade is the grade that you don’t pass if you don’t hit certain criteria for literacy. After COVID, they didn’t hold anyone back due to an emergency executive order from the Guvnah. Pretty much all the teachers I worked with hated it and believed that holding kids back was beneficial to all.
Something about holding students back seems like it might artificially inflate numbers. Like, if they administer a test in 4th grade while keeping the kids who are struggling in 3rd grade, well only the kids who made it to 4th grade are taking the test.
I’m likely wrong.
Do you even conundrum what he’s saying?
Especislly
Well, however you learned literacy wasn’t perfect either, I guess.
That fish is too stiff to have been recently alive.
Lemmy is somehow full of people at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to outlook on future elections. It’s either “No one is going to do anything, democracy is over, Trump is king.” or it’s “This is the end of the Republican party, it’s Democrats and the left after this next election and here on out.”
Neither side will stand for the middle class. Either way, I just hope that when we all die that my kids don’t suffer. I don’t have the energy to care anymore. I’ll vote, but I’m so tired.
I love how this post doesn’t even pretend that anyone may use anything but Linux. Classic Lemmy.
This comment gets posted every time Trump does anything at all. WE know. His voter base still hasn’t changed, nor will it.
Right. But while 4th grade has great literacy results, 3rd grade has 38 students per class who are deficient in reading now. How long can that last?