Posted on 06/21/2021 4:16:01 PM PDT by george76
Students in the class of 2021 did not have to prove they could write or do math at a basic level to earn their diplomas. A bill headed to Gov. Kate Brown would prohibit any such requirement at least until 2027.
A bill to prohibit Oregon schools from requiring students to show they can read, write and do math at a basic high school level is headed to Gov. Kate Brown after lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday.
The idea is to hit pause on the requirements, in place since 2009 but already suspended during the pandemic, at least until the class of 2024 gets their diplomas and for Oregon to thoughtfully reexamine its graduation requirements in the meantime. A report recommending what the new standards should be is due to the Legislature and Oregon Board of Education by September 2022.
But since Oregon has long insisted it would not impose new graduation requirements on students who have already begun high school, new requirements would not take effect until the class of 2027 at the very earliest. So at least five more classes could be expected to graduate without needing to demonstrate roughly 10th grade level proficiency in math and writing.
The decision to remove the skills requirement was largely but not entirely a party-line one, with Democrats staunchly opposing the proficiency rules and Republicans decrying what they see as a lowering of academic standards.
A spokesperson for Brown told The Oregonian/OregonLive Wednesday she has yet to decide whether she will sign the bill, veto it or allow it to become law without her signature.
Oregon, unlike other states, did not require students to pass a particular standardized test or any test at all. Students could show their ability to use English and do math via about five different tests or by completing an in-depth classroom project judged by their own teachers. In reality, most schools relied primarily on standardized tests and most students easily passed them.
But demonstrating proficiency proved most challenging for students who learned English as a second language, students with disabilities and students of color.
Officials on the Oregon Board of Education, when they enacted the “essential skills” graduation requirement more than a decade ago, said they hoped no student would be denied a diploma for lacking the skills but that schools would step up and help juniors and seniors who hadn’t mastered enough English or math to do so. Many high schools created special math and writing workshop classes for seniors who needed to demonstrate those skills to get their diplomas.
The bill calls on the diverse committee studying graduation requirements to come up with a recommendation “with the goal of ensuring that the processes and outcomes related to the requirements for high school diplomas are equitable, accessible and inclusive.”
Time for employers to institute employment tests!!
The real sad thing is that math and reading actually aren’t all that difficult. But when teachers have become trained behavioral agents whose main job is to send kids to get drugged, well, they don’t know how to actually teach.
Such a rule makes it easier for employers to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to hiring.
Memo to self:
Never hire or marry anyone from Oregon.
Just makes the diploma the good students earned worthless.
Duh, me no speek englsh or any other langwige good! No reed or rite! No do math eeether!
But Im 18, so yu beter giv me a Diploma, or else yur Rasist and Supremasist! I demand my Rites! Umgawa! Ugh!
Proof? Just look at Stacy Abrams...if you can.
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I’ll raise you one on looks and IQ—just try Kim Scott, Cook Co., IL States Attorney. Then watch “Planet of the Apes”
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Determining the intelligence of folks is not very difficult—you can probably do it in less than a minute.
The trick is to ask them a question where there is no way they know the answer. Intelligent folks will quickly be honest and say “I don’t know.”
Dumb folks will try to bluff their way through...
I seen your point.
If Oregon is not confident the students can pass the requirements then just avoid hiring any student that graduates between 2020 and 2027. Or give them your own skills test as part of the hiring process.
Why even make them attend classes. Just send them a diploma. To everyone who applies, in fact send diplomas to people who may not have applied, but are sympathetic to the current Progressive Woke Fascistic theme of the University. Solves numerous scheduling problems, certainly.
Why force them to go to school then?
Just give them diplomas at 18 years of age.
Ack!
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LOL. Many US manufacturers use Indians, as in India, on their help lines. Those people, although literate in written English have a terrible time with spoken English because of clipped accents that make understanding them very difficult. Thus, in dealing with them, I usually use digital chat because they are fluent in written English and we can understand each other.
Book of Exodus:
15] And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
[16] And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
[17] But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
[18] And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
[19] And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
[20] Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
[21] And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
[22] And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Exod.2
[1] And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
[2] And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
[3] And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
[4] And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
[5] And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
[6] And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
[7] Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
[8] And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.
[9] And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
[10] And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
Bkmk
Also don’t forget just willing little participants to inject themselves with whatever the government says to. No questions asked. Do as they’re told or the handouts stop.
They don’t want to go to College so they just need to know what a D means on a ballot.Voting preparedness will soon be a graduation requirement. So students can understand different ballot types.
Not a problem
They just need white poeple to do
The work and pay the taxes
Dimocrats just burn buildings and
Put their hands out for more free stuff
“By who? “
The Idiocracy...
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