Posted on 09/15/2015 10:07:35 AM PDT by posterchild
State lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov. Jerry Brown that would allow school districts to retroactively award diplomas to high school students who failed the California High School Exit Exam.
The Senate voted 23-14 on Thursday to support Senate Bill 172, which would award diplomas for students who were attempting to graduate as far back as 2006, when the exit exam became a requirement for graduation. The state Assembly had already passed the bill earlier in the week.
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why ever go to school?
The reason is that they’re liberals. Really no need to dive any deeper than that.
Glad I’m leaving this state. Why should those who put in all the effort to graduate even bother anymore?
A California HS diploma will be worth exactly zilch.
I did miserably on my LSAT exam, so I wasn’t accepted to law school. I want my law degree anyway.
Wait a minute. I never took the LSAT exam. Doesn’t matter. I want my law degree anyway. I am a victim of the system.
I’ve got a better idea - let a student of any age who passes the exam get the diploma.
Given the shoddy level of education, I bet there are many 9th graders out there that could pass the exam.
As such, since the gov’t would be losing those student tax dollars (as they wouldn’t have to go to high school), the quality of education might actually improve.
The test would have actually to be hard enough to preclude early graduation.
Would this make Kalifornia a ‘sanctuary state’ for dummies?
Yep what a precedent is being set here.
So people who fail the bar exam will still be permitted to practice law. Dentists and doctors and all professionals who fail those licensure exams will still be allowed to be in those professions.
So what’s the point of studying and doing anything in school if they will give you a diploma anyway?????
Another great advance in education.
Being an illegal from mexico somehow makes them literate?
Hell, the majority of illegals are illiterate in spanish, english, and the local dialect.
These are not noble savages that we’re dealing with here. These are the unwanted indios that mexico has dumped on the US. Mexico doesn’t want them, and doesn’t want to pay to take care of them. Gov. moonbeam must get a shitload of cash and drugs from mexico, along with employers in california, who get dirt cheap third world labor paid for with US tax dollars.
While waiting for my MiL to finish her appt., I flipped through it and came across this article:
"So many of us are familiar with the term homeschooling, but have you heard of unschooling? While homeschooling is pretty straightforward (teaching your child at home), unschooling is a little harder to define.
Unschooling is the notion that children are innate learners. When left to their own devices, they will seek out information and learn on their own. Parents who unschool see themselves as facilitators of learning opportunities rather than teachers."...
Bet these guys (premature detonators) were all chemistry/physics unschoolers too
"...The actuality of unschooling is that children learn through their natural lives and life experiences."..."But when they seek it out themselves, the learning can be so much more meaningful than being forced to memorize facts from a book."
Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin will appeal to youth as martyred scholars to be admired by the next generation(s) of unschoolers, if you believe this.
followed by this paragraph header:
"Letting the child lead"
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....letting the child lead? Children throw tantrums and change rules at will, like Boehner, Pelosi, Reid.
....letting the child lead? like BLM? Occupy Wall Street? Rainbow coalition wedding cakes?
Are we recognizing a pattern of immaturity reigning?
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Welcome to the generation of community organized un-education. Ugh!!
Yup. The exams are racist.
The real goal here is for the bureaucrats to be able to pat themselves on the back and to claim that they have improved the education system in spite of the truth — after all “look at how many people passed the test! Isn’t our education system wonderful?”
Good grief. People are total idiots.
Standards and Achievement are such oppressive right-wing concepts.
The dumbing down of Amerika continues apace. All part of the progressive plan...
This is a bill to give state high school grads a leg up on illegals. After the election, the next bill will make it no difference having a high school diploma and being illegal.
That's my thought as well. Why not save taxpayers a heap of money, and just give diplomas to all kids after sixth grade. After all, this bill will give diplomas to those operating at or below that level. No more school after sixth grade will save lots of money. Those kids who are interested in learning beyond sixth grade can voluntarily go to the library or research via the Internet at home. The others can hang out at McDonalds and study the art of making french fries.
They should cancel the exit exam if it doesn’t count. What is the point in wasting money on an exam that doesn’t matter, when they could use the time to teach reading, writing, and math?
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