Posted on 10/02/2005 1:13:34 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
Clearly, they need to repeat 12th grade. They they will retest and repeat the curriculum until they are competent to move on. It wasn't that long ago when I was in 12th grade--the requirements aren't exactly strict to graduate. It's pure laziness on the students' parts.
The exit exam — which has come under criticism by some educators, legislators and civil rights advocates — is geared to an eighth-grade level in math and to ninth- and 10th-grade levels in English.WTF,O?? These are supposedly seniors who haven't learned lower grade skills? How the heck can they be in 12th grade when they haven't even learned 8th grade math? Never mind - that was a rhetorical question; we wouldn't want to hurt their self-esteem by flunking them.
63% of African Americans and 68% of Latinos in the class of 2006 have passed both parts of the exam.
Buy HEY - you don't need NO college degree - unless you want to move to India or China...
Well thats 100,000 more Democrat voters. Way to go Liberals just the way you like it. They will follow like sheep as long as we can get them on the welfare rolls.
No problem. Just keep making the test easier until they all pass.
Maybe we should send the flunkers to China or India.
From the headline, thought they were talking about old people. Wondered what it was we was graduatin from.
Problem: LOW STANDARDS
Yeah, two options: start working OR we'll kick your 4$$e$ into the desert and you can wander around there for a few years until you get serious.
One of the factors may be population pressures in fairly homogenous populations.
Where so many are competing for better jobs, then schools and tests are used to screen the school population for the best candidates for the college slots that make them eligible for the better paying or less tedious jobs.
The parents push, because the fortunes of the family depend on the kids, not on the state.
Send them on to college and graduate them from there as well.
In WI we just send them to our technical schools where they
sit around and disrupt those classes just like they did in
high school..
Eventually they either get jobs or go to prison...or both
I'm curious as to what percentage of these failed 20% are the children of illegal aliens, and are illegal aliens themselves.
Because the figure seems relatively interesting given the huge number of the many millions IN CALIFORNIA alone who are illegal aliens.
Unless remedied in the schools by various means, failing students do drag down already marginal ones. And CA's teachers too often (I could be wrong but this is what it appears, with apologies to sincerely applying teachers) interested in the politics of teaching and not in the actual work itself, unless it services the politics of teaching.
Our CA culture is a mess. Far too many people here, far too much foreign interest and little to no interests outside these areas other than fun and games.
I noticed a drastic change in University of California arriving students' behaviors this year, and it began with last year: far more drinking at night, more noise and carousing during school weeks, a lot more littering and even graffitti appearing. Up until last year, the neighborhood (near a U.C. campus) was studious, with only weekend car and foot traffic increasing, the usual drinking bouts here and there, with parties, etc., but this last year it's been remarkably more degenerate in nature, far louder, more destructive, far much more loud drinking and yelling and such from student-age people, and that's during a school year. Pretty depressing loss of self control emerging.
A week or so ago, whatever that day was for the "Mexican independence day" or whatever it was, was the first time I've ever found empty beer bottles littering the sidewalk nearby -- and they were all Mexican beer bottles, at that. Just thrown all over the sidewalk and out into the street, and guys down the block fighting in the street late at night. And this is a conservative area. Imagine what it's now like in the rest of CA.
Their future in five words......."Ya want fries with that?"
More money isn't going to solve this mess. The whole thing needs to be swept out and replaced by teachers who focus exclusively on forcing English first (not Spanish, not Ebonics, or any other bullcrap) and the Three R's. Anything less is a disservice to the people we're supposed to be preparing for the real world.
Bull. Give the same test to Iowa high school seniors and I can all but guarantee less than a 5% failure rate.
California schools are a joke. I've seen kids come to Iowa boasting straight A's in California schools and they get a real shock when they learn their "grade A" work gets them a "D" in Iowa public schools.
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