Social promotion and functional illiteracy go hand-in-hand
in the education system of today’s world. Social promotion is passing students
from one grade to the next even though they have not mastered the basic
material. Functional Illiteracy is when graduates have not mastered things that
should have been learned way back in grade school. I put a picture of
graduation stickers used for graduation invitations at some point. This
represents the fact that high school graduation, while a monumental step into
the real world, is not taken as seriously as it used to. I remember when I was
little hearing “big kids” fretting about if they would graduate or not. When I got
to my senior year, it was easier than any other year I had previously
encountered. I never heard one student worrying about if they would graduate. The
classes got easier and we were passed without accurate comprehension.
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