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From Page 1 that there is an increasing and dangerous degree of permissiveness in education.
“I’ve read about a class where they’ve were getting ready to decide who would be promoted to the next level and they found that two thirds of the class wasn’t ready. So they decided not to promote anybody, thinking those that didn’t make it would feel bad or something. So they flunked a whole class, just to mollify those who would have failed anyway.”
Typically, the general said, once the details of this episode became known, no one would take the blame for having made that unwise decision. “Who did it would make a masterpiece of a whodone-it movie.”
“NOW OUT IN San Francisco, a graduate sued the school board because when he went to apply for a job and took a reading test, he found he couldn’t pass fifth grade reading,” General Noce
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