Stop Kriner Cash from "Passing" up on Our Children
- da: Nourah R. Mumeen
- destinatario: Parents of Children Attending Memphis City Schools
Memphis City School Superintendent Kriner Cash has passed the "No-Fail" Policy. This means if you have a child in Kindergarten through Third Grade, the teacher may not fail him if the child is not ready, not even because of lack of attendance. If you have a child in Fourth through Eighth grade, your child can only be failed once. This is a cruel policy which allows inner-city children to be "passed-through" to the next grade level without haven proven they have learned anything.
Mr. Cash has said to have implemented this policy to improve the child's level of self-esteem. First of all, what level self-esteem would a Second Grader have if he is promoted to Third Grade when he cannot even read? A child lacking the skills of other children in his age group will naturally have self-esteem issues regardless of how many grade levels he has been handed. Therefore, implementing such a policy in the name of self-esteem is weak at best. And how fair is it that one child achieves and earns his next grade level, but another child who is not achieving gets the same reward. How healthy then is self-esteem of the child who does excel? Or, if they know they cannot be failed, what incentive does any child have to even try?
What Mr. Cash should have said is the truth: that he has no qualms keeping inner-city children ignorant. The majority of the children in the Memphis City School System are minority or poor or both. This policy has proven to be nothing more than a backwards, pre-Civil Rights policy used to keep minorities and less affluent people behind.
As a parent, I would never want to see my child fail. However, I would much rather my child repeat a grade if he's not ready, rather than be passed along and graduate high school ill-prepared for college. Constantly passing children along without the child earning the next grade level only prepares the child for disaster in the future. He will be so far behind and have lost so many years of proper tutelage that by the time he is an adult, he will have three major issues:
1. He will think everything will be given to him even if he does nothing nor will he even have the interest to use any raw potential.
2. Academically, he will not be able to compete in getting a higher education, therefore entering the workforce.
3. Besides being embarrassed in front of adults and having low self-esteem as an adult, not being academically prepared for life has proven to be a root cause of living a criminal lifestyle.
Please sign this petition to force Kriner Cash to abolish this prejudiced, crippling policy which will destroy our children!
Our Educators have been stripped of the authority to make healthy decisions for our children. When a child sees his teacher for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and that teacher has no rights in making decisions of the child's best interest, something is very wrong. My husband and I are very active at our children's schools, however, the teachers are there to do a job. Being so over worked and under paid, it is clear that teachers are not "in it for the money". If we did not have high esteem for Memphis City School Teachers, most parents would not be sending their children to school in a system we pay our tax dollars to support.
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