must be explored and immediately put into effect. The education system must no longer promote students unto failure. State educators must take action. There is no long an excuse to look over Social promotion. Changes have already been made in both Illinois and California; it is time that the rest of the nation realizes the need for this change and takes charge. America is proclaimed the most advanced nation in the world and we are putting our future in the hands of social promotion. Society needs to answer the Presidents plea "help us end social promotion" (Rothsten 95). This can be done by the remedies described above but also there must be "more accountability from everyone involved in education [in order] to make children more successful" (Berg A2).Johnny is a fifth grade student, who in third grade did not grasp the basics of multiplication and division. Johnny's teacher saw this and was determined not to let Johnny leave her class with out the skills to survive the fourth grade. Johnny did very well in the fourth grade, due to the hard work he and his third grade teacher put in to the material. Now Johnny is graduating elementary school and moving on to the sixth grade with the skills of a fifth grader....
