[reaganaut1]

There are large differences in average academic achievement between whites and Asians and blacks and Hispanics, and high school exit exams (HSEE) will reflect this. Although HSEE are not biased just because they do not produce equal results, I am wary of using them to deny high school diplomas, because where do you draw the line? I think many employers of high school graduates want someone who follows the rules and gets to work on time, even if they don’t know algebra (which is tested on the California HSEE). I say use an HSEE (along with the SAT and high school grades) to determine admission to 4-year public colleges and for some 2-year programs, but not for a diploma. On high school transcripts, list the scores for the various subjects, and let employers decide how they want to use that information.

It is not good for the U.S. that the proportion of educationally underperforming minorities is growing, but we need to be realistic in dealing with it and not pretend that everyone can be made ready for college if we just apply enough pressure.

[fr_freak]

Although HSEE are not biased just because they do not produce equal results, I am wary of using them to deny high school diplomas, because where do you draw the line? I think many employers of high school graduates want someone who follows the rules and gets to work on time, even if they don’t know algebra (which is tested on the California HSEE).

High school should be for kids who want to go to college, and college should be for academically inclined students. Bring back trade schools, and let the kids pick their path around 9th grade, so that we may quit dumbing down all of our academic requirements in both high school and college just to accommodate the dumbest and least qualified kids.

The reason that universities have become nothing more than glorified high schools with binge drinking and mindless political protests is because a university degree is now seen as an entitlement rather than an accomplishment, to be doled out in the appropriate ratios to all of the different racial groups in accordance with whatever diktat the comrade Democrats have put out.