¶ … Teachers' Perceptions on the Effects of Social Promotion on Students
The problem in an urban elementary school in Eastern New York specifically, is the social promotion of fourth grade students. Currently, nothing is being done to address the issue of social promotion, which is supported by state education policies that allow children to be passed to the next grade level (Vallett & Annetta, 2014). This policy places at risk students with a learning disability with students who are working on grade level, which causes misunderstanding between students and teachers and among students themselves as they develop negative perceptions of one another (Trussell, Lewis, & Raynor, 2016). The problem that arises from this situation is that teachers do not know how to address these issues, as there is a lack of training for educators of students who are at risk students with some form of disability (Trussell et al., 2016).
Social promotion is the practice of passing students to the next grade level so that they may remain among their peer or age group even though the students have not mastered their learning assessments and state mandated testing. This practice has the potential to jeopardize the students' academic...
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