Via "Best of the Web," the Petersburg, Virginia, paper reports here that the local school system is considering "a proposal to remove reading from the list of must-pass classes as a grade promotion requirement."
Maybe the Curmudgeonly Clerk is right about the Petersburg area after all.
This is the root of the mandatory testing phenomenon today - whether it is the SOLs or the mult-state bar exam, if the students can pass even that one test, then at least they learned something, which is better than nothing, or what a kid who can't read will get out of 12 years spent not reading in the public schools.
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