Alletis
2008-05-31 18:59:50
Again a lot of the low expectations are not the teacher. In my school and district administration will not hold back a failing child after 3rd grade! All of my colleagues as well as myself find this appalling. The students know that they have no accountability if they do not do anything…so a lot of the time they don’t and we have to promote them to the next grade because some idiot decided it would permanently damage them to be held back. However it won’t permanently damage them when they can’t read. This ass-backwards theory is what causes teachers to quit after a few years because it just becomes very frustrating and demoralizing.
