New York State PERMANENTLY lowers math and reading standards due to the dramatic fall in test scores

Hotair ^ | 03/16/2023 | David Strom

[Bonemaker]

Anybody with any braina is out of NY.

[DJ MacWoW]

You had New York State Regents exams years ago. A Regents diploma was even better than a NY State diploma.

For the last 20 years or more, they have to pass all Regents tests to graduate.

[MayflowerMadam]

“You had New York State Regents exams years ago.”

Oh, yes. The dreaded Regents Exams three days in a row, twice a year. No pressure. Arrrrgh!

[Joe 6-pack]

By that some logic they could drop the state crime rate to zero by repealing all the criminal statutes on the books.

[mikey_hates_everything]

They could get better teachers if they would hire non-Ed grads and got rid of the union-ish certifications. IOW, regular people with real educations and life experiences. But that would threaten the livelihoods of the incumbents who have a stranglehold on what can be hired.

[twyn1]

Ironically ... NY is one of the most difficult states in which to home-school.

I believe that home-schooled children there are required to submit & follow a set/detailed curriculum (to be suggested & approved by the local school system) — they must submit quarterly reports as well as have the children take a yearly test/assessment & they must score above a certain percentage or face being forced back into the public school “system”. No “fudging” the results of those tests allowed ...

[stylin19a]

how low can they go ?
I thought they already get a passing grade for writing their name on the paper.

[joma89]

The democrat party’s plan to dumb down America goes on unabated.

[ransomnote]

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled New York State PERMANENTLY lowers math and reading standards due to the dramatic fall in test scores , bitt wrote:

so if your kid’s stupid, move to NY...

Slaves don't need to read and write - education makes them dangerous and gives them 'ideas.'

[lowbridge]

“New York state has decided to permanently lower the math and reading proficiency standards”

Yeah, that’ll solve the problem.

[Leaning Right]

> Just give ‘em all 100%. That’s equity, right? <

Even in the worst city schools where I taught, most of the kids were good. They just needed direction, and a firm set of rules.

But no administration had the courage to put that in place. It was so much easier to declare an “equity” policy, as you noted. And do you know who suffered the most? It was those good kids. Little was asked of them. And so they graduated with few skills.

Whole generations of kids (mostly black) are lost this way.

[Irenic]

yeehaw! That logic makes my head spin.

[Jamestown1630]

From what I’ve seen among a lot of young people, it seems to be rampant anti-intellectualism’ - a ‘Cultural Revolution’.

[sjmjax]

Yeah, some are horrific.
But, the real problem lies in the system itself. The school boards, unions, contractors and administrators.

[tomkat]

Potemkin Education

[TTFX]

They can’t get better teachers?

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I think nutrition or something else is causing the transvestite craziness and other problems, including low marks.

Most teachers vote Democrat and they are worse every year.

[GingisK]

The students are probably the cause.

[EinNYC]

I taught for decades in an urban school district (not in New York). And here’s how we handled falling test scores. The minimum district test score became 50%. So should a student score less than 50% on any test, the district’s computer software automatically changed his score to 50%. So let’s say that a kid showed up for a test, and he didn’t bother to answer a single question. He left the paper blank. He scored 50 points out of 100. We teachers hated that. Every one of us did! It didn’t matter. Test scores went up. And the superintendent could brag on TV about how great the district was doing. It was all a sham, of course.

That is very similar to what NYC did. Even kids who never showed up had to get a 55, not a zero. That was a tremendous disservice to kids who attended class and at least tried. Honest teachers hated this sham, but newbies thought it was "fair", "equitable" and all the other hallmark words of the brainwashed.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t think it’s nutrition. It’s brainwashing.

Young people want to fit in, be popular, and matter. They try to conform to what seems to be the ‘cool new thing’, especially if their milieu or the media cleverly makes it attractive.

And they only learn in school what they are taught.

In the past we had more attentive parents, and social mores that wouldn’t tolerate this stuff. Fortunately, a lot of the parents seem to be waking up.

Everything goes back-and-forth,throughout history. The tide will turn again.

Unfortunately, sometimes the ‘turn’ is over reactive; and sometimes powerful civilizations suffer and lose in the process.

But in the long run, the spiral has always tended upward, no matter how slowly at times.

[Lumper20]

Agree. I have two sisters who taught school. Both were union teachers. The master’s degrees they got were from a subpar college.