Posted on 06/23/2018 6:14:05 AM PDT by DFG
The bar keeps dropping on state math exams — and critics are saying it’s because officials are desperate for high graduation rates.
Kids only need to score a measly 30 percent on this month’s Algebra 1 Regents test to pass, according to new state guidelines.
Students who manage just 26 out of 86 total points will get a heavily weighted score of 65 — the minimum required for passage.
That’s the lowest standard since the state introduced the test four years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
All about race and affirmative action.
The natural end result.
What’s the point?
End public education!
NY spends the highest per capital on “education” when in fact it is a money hogging scam for the Teachers’ unions and the bloated Administation. Until someone reforms this NY will continue to flounder and die.
A lot of people are convinced that home schoolers home school because they are up to no good and are hiding something. Projection.
How many points is getting your name right?
Yeah, so, if I score 10% in each section of a 4 section test, that means I scored 40%. Is that right??
Idiocracy has arrived.
And to think, I used to be proud of my 1962 Regent’s Diploma.....(sigh)
The First Rule of bureaucracies . . . self preservation
The kids and society be damned
It’s ALL about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Parents not wishing an “affirmative action” life for their kids need to send them to private schools, or home school them to get educated.
Down the road they will be leaders...”in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.”.
Let them see the meaning of “unintended consequences”, and “trophies for all”.
But how many even get their “name right”?
Who’s their daddy??
As long as they can spell “**** Trump”, they pass.
There was a universally recognized first rate math professor at a highly rated university who gave tests to his students. 10% was an A+. His tests were really that hard. A Fields' medalist would probably get a 20%
This is the problem with grade inflation. We think some percentage on some arbitrary scale is an indicator of something. 30% of what is the question.
No doubt the point about dumbing down our schools is correct, but the title of the article demonstrates how successful they have been.
In years gone by at some rebutably tough high schools a "C" was sufficient to get into the toughest universities in the country. Now, for instance, in the University of California System you need a 4.987 on a scale of 0 to 4.0. And then you are just competitive.
It's all meaningless twaddle.
Guessing 1 out of a 4-answer multiple choice would give a 25%. So only lucky guessers graduate?
People in NY will never catch on to the truth.
#Triggered
NY, CA and MA were noted for unmatched education in their public schools. But that is ancient history.
Glenn Ford’s ‘’Blackboard Jungle’’ told about all of this chicanery decades ago.
This is the left at work.
They want equal outcomes for all, in spite of unequal abilities and unequal effort.
This is the ideal of communism: from all according to their ability, to all according to their need.
Eventually, the smart hard workers rebel against their money being taken and given to dumb slackers.
Exactly what the current USA tax system does. It takes from the successful, and gives to the indolent. It’s throughout the tax system, at all levels, federal and state. And we think we’re a capitalist country.
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