Posted on 09/10/2021 9:04:58 AM PDT by TBP
Should say... would not lose money...
“So Oregon Public “Schools” will graduate ALL students at the top of the class, the class being Useful Idiocy.”
This has been going on for a while. The libs just used the term “No kid left behind” and misused it to say they won’t “not graduate” with their peers instead of support their needs to educate them on the way by by creating the programs of study the students need to bed competitive after schooling. They just got them to a level of illiteracy and throw the diploma at them.
Notice this says an opportunity to an education, not a worthless diploma, as they are expected to meet standards for their protection so they have a chance to be competitive after graduation by creating special programs needed to reach the standards. What they have now is a lie to the students.
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More on that high-school calculus program:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante#cite_ref-m_6-0
By the way, I (a white male) took calculus in high school, and passed the AP exam. So I identified with “Stand and Deliver”!!!!
Ow, burned.
This will sure help the lazy teachers.
Yes, the irony in this is delicious. The bastards doing this would be the first to debunk the “bell curve”, yet they want to implement policies that affirm it.
In other words they agree with the bell curve (ie, that blacks have a lower average IQ) They sure as hell are not doing this for the Asians.
So that they will live life dependent on Big Government, and therefore enslaved and controlled by the government.
Remember what Jack Kemp said: "Liberals measure their compassion by how many people they're helping; we measure compassion by how many people no longer need our help."
When you measure compassion by how many people you're "helping," as Rush pointed out, you "need a permanent underclass" to "help" -- and you8 need it to be ever-expanding.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…..little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”
What a racist!
We will not achieve true equity until all are equally ignorant.
Oh! I am soooooooo sorry. I guess In can’t use my compassion card anymore to get a discount on my double decaf mocha one half syrup with whipped cream and ginger sprinkles.
Maybe the upside of that is they can no longer claim to require certified teachers. After all, they can’t be graded.
As a new school year begins, students will no longer be required to demonstrate skills in reading, writing, and math. For the next five years, an Oregon high school diploma will be no guarantee of academic achievement, but only of participation in a system with undefined parameters. The legislators, school districts, and governor supporting Senate Bill 744 saw that this “will benefit Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color”.
So now we have moved to the position held by many 19th century abolitionists. When I read The Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass, one passage always stayed with me. After speaking to an abolitionist audience, Douglass considered the evening a great success, because he concluded his talk believing these people were convinced, he was equally human with them. He mentioned this as a significant event, because even the strongest supporters of black freedom questioned whether these people were as fully human. If educators would treat these people as individuals, they would design programs allowing an opportunity for commensurate achievement.
I remember Dr. Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…..little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.” I guess the statement still makes sense to me.
Hopefully your letters will do some good, but for now it appears that the only Oregon students that have a chance are the home schooled.
Our older and wife are homeschooling this year.
All the children in my Oregon family are home schooled since they started school.
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