regent
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In the Fifties one of the great movements in education, the "keep em in school" crusade began. Juveniles delinquency was becoming a problem and schools began to try and keep em in school and off the streets. Until then most of the 25% that graduated could read and write. But to keep that other 75% in school, schools had to change and how is that done. Well you can't have twenty year olds in a Junior High so social promotion came into being when a kid got too big for the desks he was promoted, tests had to be easier, reading was nice and so was math but it wasn't pushed for some. Anyway they got the dropout rate down to 50%. That is just one of the many many problems of education in America. Ah if we could only blame all those problems on one entity, say drunken boards of education, or better, teacher unions.