California education ... qualifies a person for the best jobs.
Posted on 09/12/2015 8:05:47 AM PDT by Zakeet
The state of California is poised to award thousands of high school degrees to dropouts by passing a new law retroactively removing the requirement to pass a high school exit exam.
The California High School Exit Exam (CASHEE) was created in 2004, and is intended to make sure that students have a rudimentary grasp of English and mathematics before being awarded a high school diploma, and to counter the phenomenon of students receiving passing grades while learning almost nothing. The test is hardly complex. The math test, for instance, only covers 8th grade-level material and can be passed if students answer 55 percent of questions correctly. About 80 percent of California high schoolers take and pass it on their first try while in the 10th grade, and overall passage rates for the class of 2014 were above 97 percent.
But now, a bill passed Thursday by the California legislature, which Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign, suspends the exam through 2018, while also retroactively suspending it back to 2004. That means thousands of students who failed to ever pass the exam but otherwise completed all other requirements will now be able to receive diplomas.
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California education ... qualifies a person for the best jobs.
Mexicali at its finest......
This will help with the toilet paper shortage.
Wow1 Got his picture with the governor!
California is an amazing territory.
It’s a shame what unbridled Leftist ideology has done to the place.
Look no further for proof of what Leftist ideology will do to any place that adopts it.
Idiocracy writ large...
why attend? ever?
Give them out like gumdrops that will increase their value.
Hey CA needs money, just set up vending machines that spit out diplomas.
The worst part is it brings down the value for the students who put in the work.
Good information....
I have relatives that live in Kalifornia and that’s what they call it...LMAO....
So what does this mean......have they completely forgone the Good Enough Degree and gone full-boat worthless real government diploma?
I think this is just one variation of the discharge John Kerry got after he qualified for Carter’s Draft Dodger Amnesty.....
No CASHEE, no PAYEEE..................
The whole thing is a joke.
I home school a child and try to keep abreast of some of these things. I do not teach to grade level, I teach what will get her through college. Grade level requirements are silly.
Recently I was at a scholarship seminar where they continually spoke of A-G requirements. Everyone seemed to know what these were except for students who graduated without them and tried to get into college. I hadn’t a clue so I looked them up.
These requirements are:
History 2 yrs. or SAT 550
English 3yr. or SAT 550
Math 2 yr or SAT 570
Lab Science 2 yr
Foreign Language 2 yr or SAT 520
My question is what the heck are they doing for four years in high school if they haven’t done the above? What are they doing if they do not have math and English every semester? A 500 on the SAT is not what I would call a great achievement, especially not after having spent 12 years preparing for it. When I question any high school student they cannot answer questions about math, language, or history. When college students see my 11 year old doing school work they say they didn’t see that until their last year in high school or until they entered college. They even said this of the work she was doing when she was 9.
Government schools are a joke.
Wait, they can’t even pass the exam if written in spanish?
Everybody gets a trophy!
WHat are they going to call it, the high school participation award certificate?
they don't need to read to push the button that looks like a burger or fries they don't need arithmetic to swipe an EBT card or creditcard
history? they don't even know who their father is
foreign language? that'd be english...
science? well... they can cook meth in a bottle, what more do they need to know???
you know it's coming
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