Thus, testing should be an important component but by no means the only one to determine a student's level of achievement and potential. Also, there's the discredited notion that any test contains inherent cultural bias. That may have been true in the past in certain areas such as language skills, but no longer. However, the poorer performers tend to do their worst in math and science, subjects in which facts are either right or wrong. Promoting a minority child strictly for social reasons does him or her no favor.
Social promotions amount to nothing more than lying, promoting false hopes and empty expectations.
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