[SmithL]

See what a little incentive can do?

[SmithL]

Study or Sue?

Sue or Study?

So many hard choices, but it looks like the folks that studied made the right choice.

[Texasforever]

Or maybe a bit of creative grading.

[samiam1972]

Ha! I read the title and my first thought was of a bunch of elderly people going back to school. I can be a real dunce sometimes! Wonder if I could pass that test!!

[Right Wing Assault]

denied a diploma solely for failing the exit exam

Isn't that enough of a reason since it sounds as if they have failed it at least twice. That's a bad sign.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Of this year's seniors who have not yet passed the test, 64 percent are Latinos, many of whom speak little English.

Of those, how many are legal citizens?

[hauerf]

"Still, 41,758 seniors have not yet passed the test of 8th- to 10th-grade math and English skills."

One has to wonder how a person can have become a high school senior if he is unable to pass tests of 8th to 10th grade math and English skills.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Our tax dollars at work:

1: Providing barely functional education (at public expense) to
2: Illegals (not all, there are obviously some "unteachables" in every sector of society plus legal and illegal children who "just got here" so they have no command over English) so they can
3: be cared for, coddled, given special treatment (at public expense)
4: so that many more (remedial) teachers and support staff can be hired (at public expense) to populate
5: an ever-enlarging dependent class(es) who will require welfare or assistance (at public expense) to get by

But at least we'll have folks who'll do the jobs Americans won't do. (at public expense)

Galls me.

[mysterio]

Funny story. My college was one of the last to keep comprehensive graduation exams as a requirement for graduation. I took mine, and initially seemed to flunk it terribly. This was odd for me, as I kept a fairly high GPA. I wasn't alone. The kids in my class who passed it did great, but about half the graduating class flunked it in a major way. Turned out that there were two versions that the testing service graded off of the same key. Whoops. After taking a real browbeating from my professors over flunking, they suddenly discovered that we all passed it with flying colors. Our tests had been graded from the wrong key. And we didn't even get an apology.

And no, not one of us filed suit over the mistake.

[NinoFan]

Good job to those who decided to study instead of sue. As for the others...

[singfreedom]

What happens if this lawsuit is won by the anti-testers. Would all these kids just be passed, and graduated, whether they can speak/write English or do 10th grade math? That seems like an extremely stupid thing to do.

Sorry, but I think, at least, being able to SPEAK English should be a requisite for graduating from a U.S. high school. I can't think of ANY circumstances under which this would be inappropriate.

On another, but related topic, has anyone else seen the film of masses of Mexican youngsters crossing the border each morning to attend schools on the U.S. side of the border? I believe it was on O'Reilly last week. I was appalled! It evidently happens on a regular basis.

[FlingWingFlyer]

When they finally do away with these pesky, "controversial" exams, I'm going to quit my job and become a brain surgeon or maybe a lawyer, they make a lot of money. Or maybe I'll be a rocket scientist. Right now, the only thing standing in my way are those wacky, "controversial" exams. Those exams are racist you know.