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Posted on 12/27/2015 5:52:42 PM PST by george76
On January 1, California residents will have to accustom themselves to a number of new laws that will be implemented in the state. These are some the laws that will likely have the most profound effect:
SB 172: High school seniors will receive their diploma whether or not they pass or even take an exit exam; the law also applies retroactively to students who have graduated since 2004;
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SB 707: Bans concealed firearms from college campuses and K-12 school grounds
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Same standards as Harvard had for Dorkbama, no doubt.
So then just what is the value of a diploma from a California school system? That of a “Participant” trophy?
If they have graduated, why would they need a diploma? It says it is retroactive to students who have graduated since 2004.
The first part made me want to throw up.
Bigger question...why are taxpayers funding a worthless “education” system
bingo
Everybody Gets A Trophy comes to education.
If they aren’t bilingual, at least they’ll know a foreign language
Why not just bequeath one from birth.
this relieves public school teachers in the union from the need to perform a useful function other than transitory juvenile detention.
“SB 172: High school seniors will receive their diploma whether or not they pass or even take an exit exam; the law also applies retroactively to students who have graduated since 2004”
Just a quick question: is it necessary to take a test to have completed all of your requirements for high school, or is the test in addition to completing your coursework? I ask because, for example, in NY, there were (up until a few years ago) two types of diplomas: the local diploma, that everyone who completed their course requirements got, and the regents diploma, which you only got by also passing the regents exam (as I understand it now, the regents exam is now compulsory for everyone other than a few limited types of students, like disabled students).
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California Laws: On January 1st, Students Won’t Have to Pass High School to Receive Diploma”
Another BB click-bait headline.
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Lousy bunch of commies just devalued my kid let’s diploma. Good news is she already has her B.S. and is getting ready to finish a graduate degree.
So glad I left Mexifornia when I did
Because they’re coerced at gunpoint.
next do away with all testing, then attendance, and then what?
No state mandated exit test? This leaves graduation decisions at the local level—which is fine if your child is going to a good school.
Back in my day they used to say someone passed “on condition”. That meant they were stupid or retarded.
For the past 20 years or so they’ve been passing people who can’t “reed n right”. Remember “I can’t read cursive.”?
I’ve watched people who can’t speak English pass real estate exams that were given in English.
I am not from New York, but IIRC, the NY Regents exam was a very tough test. Do you know if they have made it easier over the years?
From the bill digest: “and has met all applicable graduation requirements other than the passage of the high school exit examination.”
The exit exam was/is a statewide minimal standards exam on top of all their other individual class finals.
I suppose someone in the past was unhappy with the quality, or lack thereof, of HS teaching.
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