How can state governments issue orders to promote children to the next classes in these circumstances?It is a combination of factors working at the highest levels of the political and administrative leadership of states.
Almost every school-teacher is horrified by such decisions, while the state leadership seems deliberately disconnected from reality.
Partly because they feel defensive about their inaction in the past 12 months, and partly because they don’t have the courage to act decisively.
Only a few states, with strong and thoughtful leadership, are attempting to tackle the situation realistically.Four things need to be done.