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Monday, April 4, 2005
Social Promotion, Part II
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In an earlier post about social promotion, the topic of alternative schools came up. Aren’t alternative schools the place for kids who don’t want to learn?
Hmmmm… I always thought alternative schools were for kids with discipline problems. Often, such students have academic problems too. The special education population in alternative schools is much higher than in traditional schools. But is alternative education really the place for kids who have not mastered the material to move on to the next grade?
When I covered the Gwinnett system in the late 1990s, there was talk of setting up programs called “success schools.” If I recall, these schools would be for kids who did not have discipline problems but did need a lot more instruction in the basics before they could move on to the next grade.
Is this a good answer?
