How does this work?
“We failed you for 13 years, but we are going to give you a diploma... “
If they *really* wanted to help these students, they would make sure they could read, like, a few years before their senior years.
Madness, utter madness. The students should sue their pants off, and make allowing charter schools a part of the deal. Lots and lots of charter schools.
And sue the NEA as well.
This system doesn’t preclude anyone from learning. Just from having to demonstrate that they learned. A sop to the beaners, but plenty of the slack-jawed yokels will take advantage.