A perfect example of the dumbing down of America. Rather than trying to get the students to perform to a higher standard, which is the hard thing, they reduce the standards to their level, which is the easy thing. If our children are never challenged in adolescence, they will not be adequately prepared for adulthood, where they will be challenged on a daily basis. How long is it going to be acceptable to hand functionally illiterate people their HS diplomas?
>How long is it going to be acceptable to hand functionally illiterate people their HS diplomas?
As long as they vote dem. Nothing wlse matters, certainly not America.
If the Dems have their way, everyone will be stupid and have to rely fully on the government to think for them. It's the Democratic way!
Five-star post! You've said it perfectly.
OK, I looked at the California Exit Exam -- I have a kid I am tutoring who needs to pass that, and it will be a miracle. That test is ridiculous. The first ten questions (in the test prep book) are about statistics; they use statistics buzzwords that I have never heard, and ask the most convoluted questions. In the years since high school, I have not used ONE of these concepts, ever, and probably would have gotten them all wrong.
How can that be right? It should be a test for basic reading and writing and arithmetic. The test I looked at is meaningless for assessing -- what? -- whether the student is ready to go on to a degree in statistics, I suppose. It reads like some smarmy, self-satisfied, Ivory Tower mathematician who never spends time with kids wrote it.