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Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by fennecfoxen on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:15AM (#23020217)
What does it imply?

If any school district cares, all the kids will essentially end up repeating a grade. This is not the end of the world. If anything, it might improve student achievement. (Students who are born right after the cutoff for a particular elementary school class, in aggregate, outperform the ones born just before, the youngest in the class.)

Outside of college-bound seniors — a special case — the main price is their time, same as anyone else, and their caregivers' time.

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Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by karatestomp on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @01:06PM (#23021522)
1) there's no way parents will be OK with this, and

2) the count of districts ready to have a 7.7% student headcount increase in one year (you're doing this for 13 grades at once, plus have another coming in) on top of whatever growth they already expected approaches zero. I mean, hell, think of what that would do to the teacher labor market alone if even 10% of districts all did that, putting aside things like building space and bussing.

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Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by r00fus on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:33PM (#23021085)
> If any school district cares, all the kids will essentially end up repeating a grade.

It sounds more like you haven't thought this through.

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Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by fennecfoxen on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:48PM (#23025966)
I shouldn't assume school districts care

voted +1 touché

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Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec... by MiroF on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:41AM (#23020524)
You don't understand how urban school districts work if you think you can just get a grade to "repeat itself." Kids will drop out once they're 18 like flies.
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