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California Will Give Free High School Diplomas To Kids Who Flunked Out
Daily Caller ^ | September 11, 2015 | Blake Neff

Posted on 09/12/2015 8:05:47 AM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Zakeet
Paradoxically, one suspects that this might hurt minority kids and one-parent family kids the worst.

High expectations?

These are good things

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21 posted on 09/12/2015 8:36:35 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Zakeet

K-12 Day care.


22 posted on 09/12/2015 8:41:31 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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Cali education rewarding failure.


23 posted on 09/12/2015 8:58:59 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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Logical extension is that no one needs to go to school. They’ll still get a high school diploma. And since no one needs to attend school, there is no need for teachers, administrators, staff or elected school boards.

Then property taxes can be cut in half and tax collectors can find employment elsewhere.


24 posted on 09/12/2015 9:09:53 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Zakeet

Oh cool. They get a participation ribbon. /s


25 posted on 09/12/2015 9:15:08 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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Your analysis/results are so profound that we should expand to College/University.

Lots and lots of money to be saved. And no more student debt.


26 posted on 09/12/2015 9:22:00 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: Zakeet
I don't think that's fair at all.
The precious little victims of this travesty should be given Ph.Ds in Physics.

They should all be given jobs too.
And new cars.

While they're at it, why require people to take tests for a driver's license?
Shouldn't they just give them away in the mail?

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27 posted on 09/12/2015 9:27:40 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: rey

The lowest possible score on the SAT is a 600 so I guess they have that covered.


28 posted on 09/12/2015 9:28:59 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Liberals support high taxes on alcohol, tobacco and wealth. And all for the same reason.)
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To: Zakeet

California invented ‘social promotion’ over 20 years ago. Grade school teachers have not been able to hold a child back, unless the parents signed authorization, since the 90’s. This is just the logical next step. And the Dems in California, and the USA, benefit from the lack of education of the masses.


29 posted on 09/12/2015 9:35:45 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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which will be worthless once the word spreads to employers.

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It’s been worthless for a long time, I believe most employers are aware of that. Just like college degrees in some (many) majors are worthless.


30 posted on 09/12/2015 9:37:13 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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I hope you’re not implying that my degree in social engineering is somehow not going to get me far. /s


31 posted on 09/12/2015 9:47:49 AM PDT by umgud
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To: rey

My question is what the heck are they doing for four years in high school if they haven’t done the above?............................. Texting the students behind them???


32 posted on 09/12/2015 10:20:25 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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My question is what the heck are they doing for four years in high school if they haven’t done the above? ......learning that America is evil.
33 posted on 09/12/2015 12:22:09 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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I was just thinking....I was in the military,didn’t do anything special,but if I moved to California maybe I could get a Congressional Medal of Honor.


34 posted on 09/12/2015 6:02:37 PM PDT by oldtech
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You’d be amazed at how many don’t even bother going to school; in NJ they started threatening the welfare payments of the mothers if the children missed X number of days.

There is this big push to eliminate “the box” (asking about a criminal record) on job applications, in the hopes that more convicts can be hired. I personally find it much more useful to require an applicant to write a few sentences (about anything at all) to screen out those given “free diplomas” (usually preferred minorities). This is already happening with college degrees as well, by the way.


35 posted on 09/12/2015 6:19:28 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: originalbuckeye

I don’t know if NJ requires parents’ approval to hold students back, but they’ve been “socially promoting” in NJ cities for decades. When I had to correct a co-worker’s lack of capitalizing street names, her response was to simply start typing everything in all caps; she had probably never read a book or newspaper, and was functionally illiterate. A shocking number of urban blacks are in the same boat, which has helped our non-English speaking invaders from the south take their jobs so easily.


36 posted on 09/12/2015 6:23:04 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: HarleyLady27

And it’s no secret why. = :^)


37 posted on 09/12/2015 6:43:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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