America's Biggest Threat

[sweet angel]

raise the bar for schools in poor neighborhoods

Raise the bar for schools in ALL neighborhoods. In my town (a basically blue-collar, but not "poor"), kids have to fail TWO major subjects to stay back. If you only fail ONE major subject, you get pushed through and are not required to take the failed course again. That makes no sense to me. If you can't pass 7th grade math, how can you possibly take 8th grade math? A parent also cannot request that a child repeat a grade.