Unfortunately, the left is once again ahead of us on this one. They have realized that you cannot force a child to learn and that the equal opportunity to an education doesn’t always lead to an equal outcome, that White students continue to out perform minority students on tests.
So, rather than return to the old tracking system, where students choose their own path to a diploma, college preparatory, business, tech, or general, the left has decided to simply give out a diploma to kids at 15 or 16 and put them directly into a union apprenticeship or training program, preferably an SEIU training program, whether the kids can read, write and do math or not. They don’t even have to pass a GED test and probably couldn’t.
In other words, the left has changed the goal of education from an equal opportunity to an equal outcome. Next time you hear the left talk about outcome based education, you’ll know what they mean.
“In other words, the left has changed the goal of education from an equal opportunity to an equal outcome.”
The highest rating is termed ‘Excellent’. To be ‘excellent’ doesn’t mean that any students did particularly well. It means the vast majority managed to meet the minimum standards.
The course material in core subjects has been dumbed down
year after year, and more students are required to be enrolled in the ‘higher level’ college prep classes. The
Texas university system is full of kids that can’t perform
well enough to be in entry level college classes.
People talk about the importance of testing etc., but the
bureaucrats that write the tests can still push whatever agenda they want!!!!
Again it is really up to parents to work to ensure that
their children are truly learning what they want them to learn.