Social Promotion: Yes or no???

Grade retention as been proven over the years NOT to work than work. When you keep a child behind from their peers, they tend to shut down and the result are not positive. Social promotion is a good idea not being properly used. The idea is to promote the child, but target the problem and find a solution as well. For instance, a child at one time could have been retained due to very low reading levels. Now they must be promoted. The problem is schools are doing just that, and not addressing the reading problem it's self. Many States in this country refuse to acknowledge the existence of Dyslexia, a very common reading disorder. By not addressing, the problem children who are dyslexic will never be able to over come their disadvantage. So when used properly yes social promotion is a very good idea. However once again, public schools are half _ssing it and not doing the rest of the work required to help the children.

i don't agree with social promotion.also student should not be dropped just coz he/she is failing too much. we should try to find reasons for their failure and help them to succeed.

Somehow marking students on the basis of answer they have given has many loopholes and result in many school dropouts so I feel this social promotion is fine.

I don't know how is in your country but in romania if you fail to pass 3 times your out . That means your not capeble to understand so your send to a special school who deals whit special kids. You don't have a chanse to get old in the second grade is to embarising.