Posted on 10/24/2023 1:11:27 AM PDT by Libloather
Oregon school chiefs have again suspended the need for high schoolers to prove their math, reading and writing skills in order to graduate.
The State Board of Education voted last week to continue the suspension for another five years amid claims they are unfair on minority students who don't test well.
In order to earn a diploma, graduating students were previously required to earn standardized test scores indicating proficiency in reading, writing and math.
But this was put on pause during the pandemic as standardized tests weren't happening amid school closures.
Following a unanimous vote by the Oregon State Board of Education last week, the requirement will not be in place for at least the next five years.
Opponents of the essential skills requirement argued it was harmful to students of color, students with disabilities and those learning English as a second language.
These groups were frequently required to take extra math and writing classes in their senior year to prove they deserved to graduate.
But board members underscored that state-mandated standardized tests will still be administered to most Oregon high school students - they just won't be used to determine whether a student has the skills necessary to graduate.
'The only thing we are suspending is the inappropriate use of how those assessments were being used,' state board member Vicky López Sánchez, a dean at Portland Community College, said during Thursday's meeting.
'I think that really is in the best interest of Oregon students.' Hundreds of people submitted public comments urging the board to reinstate the standards.
But Board Chair Guadalupe Martinez Zapata described the pushback as a 'campaign of misinformation.'
During a September meeting, she likened 'rhetoric about cultural and social norms being the underlying reason for underperformance on assessments by systemically marginalized students' to 'racial superiority arguments.'
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Seems racist.
Learning is racist.
It’s all about the union dues. By lengthening a process that should only take about 8 years, with present curricula, they want to lengthen into the 20’s.
I read the names of these Oregon state board of education leaders as being Hispanic. I can see the reason they don’t want to prevent diplomas from being given to students who can’t read, write or compute. They can’t read or write in English or Spanish. What kind of future do these young people have without literacy?
What kind of “favor” are you doing giving diplomas to young people WHO CANNOT READ THEIR DIPLOMAS?
This is a complete disconnect from the mandatory need for “graduates” to be able to work in a job other than picking ripened fruit or vegetables in a farm field, dealing illegal drugs or stealing cars and selling them for parts.
The state has fewer than 2-percent blacks, and it’s around 14-percent for the Hispanic population. What the state is avoiding to say is that Hispanic kids who ‘just arrive’ by age 10 to 13...aren’t in shape to handle the US grade levels, and the state has never built a program to handle ‘new’ citizens.
So that Hispanic 18-year old kid is probably at best....at 8th or 9th grade level by the time they ‘graduate’ (fake-graduate is the better term).
Rather than admit this problem...they simple erased the certificate test. When the Hispanic kid shows up at some community college or state university...they will have to test the kid and then tell them they aren’t of the quality for the demands of the school....unless they do an entire year of college-high school to get them to the right level.
Adding to this farce...if the Pentagon guys come to test them for the ASVAB test...the Hispanic kids won’t test high enough for any Army entry requirements...so they can’t even go that route.
Of course this will do the exact opposite.
You reward stupid, you get more stupid.
Sending students out into the world unprepared isn’t “bolstering” them.
I think the people in charge know all that and just don’t give sh*t!
Memo to self:
NEVER HIRE ANYONE WHO WENT TO SCHOOL IN OREGON.
We don’t need no whitey history nor heritage.
Well blacks can only learn beyond 8th grade you know..s
How long will it take to get beyond that lie?
minority kids?
They mean black kids
Everybody knows non-black kids can learn, including non-black minorities like Asians and Hispanics.
The treatment of blacks as incapable of learning is racist and is probably the biggest reason nowadays for blacks under-performing in school and in real life.
Thereby rendering diplomas utterly meaningless. That is NOT do minorities any favors.
I agree with you distinguishing the Hispanics just arriving from second and third generation Americans. Today’s Hispanic “migrants” are coming from very underdeveloped countries. We need to shift legal immigration to merit, and end illegal immigration.
Yup...
“This is a complete disconnect from the mandatory need for “graduates” to be able to work in a job other than picking ripened fruit or vegetables in a farm field, dealing illegal drugs or stealing cars and selling them for parts.”
They know that. It is their desired outcome.
Yep- destroy the entire country to placate a few ‘remedial’ students or gangbangers.
HOME SCHOOL. And, those voters get the stupid kids they deserve - just a shame it will affect our entire country.
Gotta keep those low I.Q. kiddies down home on the RAT plantation. Can’t be teaching them math and writing skills. The idiots don’t need to learn English. They just make up their own grunting and groaning sounds as they go along.
Well, with all these lowering standards, America will be the only country with “valedictorians” mowing lawns and cleaning toilets.
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