The NYT reported on Sunday that 9,000 city students’ failure to pass new third-grade exit exams was followed by a massive parent volunteer effort aimed at raising student scores over the summer.
Digna Sanchez of Learning Leaders offered this quixotic nugget: “It’s the first time we’ve had a summer initiative of this kind,” Sanchez said, “Clearly, the end of so-called social promotion for third graders is a controversial issue.”
Yes, that makes perfect sense. Parents must be volunteering to express disapproval of the law, not to help children learn to read or anything.
Posted by Marie Gryphon on June 29, 2004Why should they? Illiteracy has served them just fine.
Posted by: Yarn on July 8, 2004 9:30 AM