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To: greenspirit who wrote (17897)	3/4/1998 8:00:00 AM
From: Rambi	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Michael, Found the IBD article interesting as just the other day CW told me (so I can't vouch for total accuracy) that the schools aren't allowed to retain a student in a grade at the high school. A course may be failed or repeated, but you still move ahead gradewise. Graduation is based, as it is from college, on a required number of credits, so I guess you could be a "senior" for years. I think social promotion is worse in the lower grades, where it means an unequipped child is pushed to a completely new level without the skills necessary to achieve. By high school, it's almost too late. They see themselves, and worse they are seen, as failures. Self esteem comes from achievement based on hard work, and an appreciation of yourself for who you are, not who you wish you were. I don't believe children are fooled by these unearned "gifts". In a way this trend has the same psychology as entitlement programs. No one I know favors social promotion; no one with common sense could. How the heck did it happen?