Education is now the hot topic in politics, both nationally and here in California.
Their punishment will be to repeat the grade they've just finished. Yet, retention is a failed education policy and everyone knows this. It doesn't matter. In a short while, if nothing stops them, our schools will be filled with hundreds of thousands of children being forced to repeat a grade, not to learn, but to satisfy a deep-seated and politically inspired need to punish. This is not a proud moment in our history.