Social Promotion In Schools

The final factor social promotion affects is how students deal with the real world, and the role of teachers. The main concern is budgets. The school has to put out money for retained students and additional teachers. They also have to pay more for school systems. Too many retained students causes the costs to increase, leaving many frustrated. Students who come from poor families also find it difficult to pay if they are retained, causing them to dropout. Large classroom sizes have also reduced since students are promoted, which lowers the budget for school systems. Additionally, the dropout rates decrease. If a student is retained, it creates higher risk factors such as truancy, problem behaviors, and complications in future relationships
Social promotion discourages the concept of studying hard. “...Unless poorly achieving students are faced with the prospect of flunking and being forced to repeat the grade, they will have little incentive to apply themselves to their studies… The threat of grade retention might motivate students who do not apply themselves to invest more effort in their studies.” (Social Promotion, 2001). If students are threatened with grade retention, it may motivate them to apply themselves to their studies so they
Potentially, they will graduate without the proper knowledge and skills they need for a job. “It is difficult to be as productive in today’s society without key skills like reading, comprehension, and mathematics… Businesses would be forced to invest into their own remedial education systems.” (14 Social Promotion Pros and Cons, 2015). Colleges would have to spend money on programs since some high school graduates were uneducated for college courses. Businesses would have to invest more money in training employees who didn’t have the skills required for that specific job. The alternative to solve this problem is specific programs made for those students. “Promoting unprepared students does little to increase their achievement or live chances.” (Social Promotion, 2004). Schools could develop better standards and grade-to-grade criteria, teachers could be equipped with the necessary skills needed to teach, class sizes could be reduced, and assistance could be provided to students who need it. After all, the benefits of getting a good education will take a student far in the real