We have very little say in what is happening to public education.
Sheer raging nonsense. You're the front line. You're delivering the education. The Nuremberg Defense doesn't work.
If a student is incapable of and unready for the next course, you do him a moral wrong promoting him thereto. Passing the incompetent condemns that student to being "left behind", drifting thru an "education" leaving him completely left behind in the real world. If enough teachers held the line, policy would change.
Sheer raging nonsense. You're the front line. You're delivering the education. The Nuremberg Defense doesn't work.
If a student is incapable of and unready for the next course, you do him a moral wrong promoting him thereto. Passing the incompetent condemns that student to being "left behind", drifting thru an "education" leaving him completely left behind in the real world. If enough teachers held the line, policy would change.