Cheers and Jeers
Passing Eighth Grade Gets a Little Harder in New York City, where students will now be required to pass classes in a few core subject areas and achieve at a "basic level" in English and math. Such minimum requirements, apparently, are viewed by some as policies that "punished children for ‘things they really don’t have any control over.’" But surely wouldn’t such children be punished even more by a system of social promotion that might push them through to graduation, but without sufficient education to turn that diploma into a living and a life?
