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HISD may promote failing students to cut dropouts
By JASON SPENCER and JO ANN ZUÑIGA
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
Houston high school students who've failed core subjects such as English or math would get to move on to the next grade under a proposal HISD trustees are considering as part of the district's effort to reduce its dropout rate.

Dropping the core course requirement puts the Houston Independent School District at odds with other Harris County school systems and urban Texas districts, including one that says it is addressing its dropout problems in other ways.

Promoting students who meet HISD's minimum amount of credits will encourage them to stay in school, said district Superintendent Kaye Stripling.

"A student sitting in the ninth grade at age 17 is a kid who is going to say, `Forget this, I'm dropping out,' " Stripling said in a news release. "What we need to do is give that child a chance to earn promotion to the next grade while at the same time we give that student extra academic help to pass the class he failed."
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Your poor kids. They have to actually earn their way? You cruel father you.
 
No Gonz, there is no safe place in the universe. People wonder why our education system is a joke.
 
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OHMIGOD. That's even funnier than not wanting to risk stigmatizing them with a failing grade. No wonder the entire population is turning gay. It's simply nature trying to take the human race out as one gigantic failure.

A student sitting in the ninth grade at age 17 is a kid who is going to say, `Forget this, I'm dropping out,'
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*gasp**wheeze* 17 in grade 9? That's, what, 6 failed years? Guess what. He's finally got something right.


" Stripling said in a news release. "What we need to do is give that child a chance to earn promotion to the next grade
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Seems to me he's already had 6 chances. Even career criminals are only given 3

while at the same time we give that student extra academic help to pass the class he failed
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And failed, and failed, and failed, and failed, and failed.
 
Instead of doing all that, they should concentrate on changing teaching methods. Or investigate the teachers to see if they're teaching properly.

I owe all my reading ability to my teachers. Everyone in my class could read (as far as I recall anyway).

Teachers these days must not be putting as much effort into teaching as the teachers of yesteryear.

Maybe the schools should start paying for hooked on phonics or something for the kids who can't read.
 
maybe its me but teachers cared more when I was in grade school through HS and they actually taught.
 
Prof, students in the 9th grade in the US are 14-15 years old.

At my high school, first-year (grade 9) students are always freshmen, second-year students are always sophomores (grade 10), etc. But everyone has to pass four years of English, 3 1/2 years of social studies/history and 1/2 year of health, 3 years of math, a year of life science (usually biology), a year of physical science (usually chemistry, and many elect to take physics the next year like I did), and so on. So if you fail freshman English your freshman year, you either take it again during summer school or take it again your sophomore year as well as taking sophomore English. I had a couple of juniors in my sophomore English class, for example.

It's more of a "we'll still call you a sophomore your second year here, but you have to pass this set of requirements to graduate and get a diploma" approach.
 
What I'm trying to figure out is why I actually learned how to use punctuation, how to spell, how to use "your" and "you're," and so on, while a bunch of my high school classmates didn't... especially since I knew a lot of them in grade school and had the same teachers.
 
Gato_Solo said:
It's just a primitive SEP field. What's the problem?
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I don't know about you guys, but those things are all over the place where I work! ;)
 
the problem is is that the kids have no incentive besides their own wellbeing and that obviously isn't an issue because they'll just sap the welfare system like every other lazy, dumfuck out there. they aren't made to pay attention and do their work because the kid gloves are superglued to the teachers hands and then nailed to the wall. there is NO discipline in american schools and everyone knows that theses kids aren't getting any at home :shrug: best the school system can think of is to make uniforms mandatory so even if the students are drop dead stupid at least they'll all look alike.
 
"A student sitting in the ninth grade at age 17 is a kid who is going to say, `Forget this, I'm dropping out,' " Stripling said in a news release. "What we need to do is give that child a chance to earn promotion to the next grade while at the same time we give that student extra academic help to pass the class he failed."
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So why would this not be picked up on BEFORE he's failed it 6 times??? I mean shouldn't he already be receiving academic support BEFORE that??? My mother is a special needs teacher so I know that kinda stuff is picked up in what you would call kindergarten.....9th grade?? *shakes head*

And then the part saying that they dont need the most important skills in life? Just so long as the school makes its quota? What the hell is the world coming to????????
 
I hear Death Valley is relatively safe...just make sure you bring plenty of water, and a few bits of food... ;)
 
chcr said:
Don't let him kid you, you can cook in your own skin there. There's a reason it's called Death Valley.
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Bah. I summered over in an undisclosed location, where the temperature was an average of 120 degrees in the shade. Not that much cooler than Death Valley. Of course, I also had plenty of water, and a building with air conditioning when the sandstorms started blowing... :p
 
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