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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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Sure, because possessing a piece of paper with the word “Diploma” on it is more important than actually having the skills to perform any job they might get based on said piece of paper.
Gaining the knowledge and the skills to apply it is far less important than their precious self-esteem. What a nightmare it’ll be for them when they realize how unfair life can be. They’ll never know how to measure for success or failure. The future belongs to everyone, not just “the children”, and it looks more and more like the adults in the room will have to slap it out of their hands.
Publik skrewl kids aren’t students.
They are just the grist for Deep State’s diploma mills.
Make everyone stupid to ensure equality... definitely a liberal mantra.
If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.
“The treatment of blacks as incapable of learning is racist “
Would that be “the soft bigotry of low expectations”?
Diploma inflation.
Employer: “Where did you graduate from high school?”
Potential employee: “Oregon!”
Employer: “Next!”
“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?”
It does insure a lifetime of dependency on government, which is exactly what the Education Establishment is charged with doing. Independence is anathema for totalitarians.
Yes. Exactly. Only, is it really “soft bigotry.” When you consider Darwinism, the theory of evolution, abortion and euthanasia, you start to see this as evil.
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2+ years ago:
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says illegal immigrants are “the heart and soul of our culture and the backbone of our economy”
Then this!
Oregon students shouldn’t have to prove they can write or do math to get a diploma, lawmakers decide!
The Oregonian ^ | Jun 16, 2021 | Betsy Hammond
Posted on 6/21/2021, 4:16:01 PM by george76
Students in the class of 2021 did not have to prove they could write or do math at a basic level to earn their diplomas. A bill headed to Gov. Kate Brown would prohibit any such requirement at least until 2027.A bill to prohibit Oregon schools from requiring students to show they can read, write and do math at a basic high school level is headed to Gov. Kate Brown after lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday. (The bill was sign by the governor, and it is now in effect in Oregone!)
The idea is to hit pause on the requirements, in place since 2009 but already suspended during the pandemic, at least until the class of 2024 gets their diplomas and for Oregon to thoughtfully reexamine its graduation requirements in the meantime. A report recommending what the new standards should be is due to the Legislature and Oregon Board of Education by September 2022.
But since Oregon has long insisted it would not impose new graduation requirements on students who have already begun high school, new requirements would not take effect until the class of 2027 at the very earliest. So at least five more classes could be expected to graduate without needing to demonstrate roughly 10th grade level proficiency in math and writing.
The decision to remove the skills requirement was largely but not entirely a party-line one, with Democrats staunchly opposing the proficiency rules and Republicans decrying what they see as a lowering of academic standards.
A spokesperson for Brown told The Oregonian/OregonLive Wednesday she has yet to decide whether she will sign the bill, veto it or allow it to become law without her signature. (She proudly signed the bill!)
Oregone, unlike other states, did not require students to pass a particular standardized test or any test at all. Students could show their ability to use English and do math via about five different tests or by completing an in-depth classroom project judged by their own teachers. In reality, most schools relied primarily on standardized tests and most students easily passed them.
But demonstrating proficiency proved most challenging for students who learned English as a second language, students with disabilities and students of color.
Officials on the Oregon Board of Education, when they enacted the “essential skills” graduation requirement more than a decade ago, said they hoped no student would be denied a diploma for lacking the skills but that schools would step up and help juniors and seniors who hadn’t mastered enough English or math to do so. Many high schools created special math and writing workshop classes for seniors who needed to demonstrate those skills to get their diplomas.
The bill calls on the diverse committee studying graduation requirements to come up with a recommendation “with the goal of ensuring that the processes and outcomes related to the requirements for high school diplomas are equitable, accessible and inclusive.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3969771/posts
It is simple, Eliminating schools as places to learn and making them serve as day care centers all day. Beginning with breakfast, morning breaks, lunch, afternoon breaks and a dinner before going home. Maybe midnight basketball.
Teachers and their unions will still be paid. Any so called classes will be conducted by supposedly graduates, and the highly paid teachers will monitor those former classes on Zoom.
More Gardeners, janitors and other custodial care at the former schools will require more union workers, managers and whatevers!
So our taxes will go up for the above B$!
https://nypost.com/2021/09/15/virginia-teacher-says-making-kids-behave-is-white-supremacy/
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