‘...an Oregon high school diploma will be no guarantee that the student who earned it can read, write or do math at a high school level.’
but what does the state consider math at the high school level to be...? Algebra, Plane Geometry, trigonometry...? none of those are necessary to successfully make a living...being proficient at fortified arithmetic should suffice...
as far as reading and writing...? now we’ve got an issue, if a student is deficient in either or both...I would say the ability to read Hawthorne, Dickens, Melville and Faulkner, and write a concise essay regarding thematic and structural elements, or to take a technical writing and being able to write a comprehensive report on its integral substance should suffice...
But they know how to pick the democrat face for elective office out of a photo lineup. Mission accomplished. The less educated the better. This also explains the push for more and more uneducated “immigrants,” who have also never heard of a Constitution.
Guess employers will have test the applicants.
Equal learning standards for all, equal no learning standards AT all. POS democrats do not care about children or education. Keep the masses dumb & keep the democrats in. I drove through Eastern Oregon last week & many American & Trump flags flying. I have conservative friends on the Western side of the State also, still not enough voices (I won’t say votes because, well you know!) to keep democrats from forcing their agenda on all.
Participation Award, previously known as a Diploma
Everyone gets a trophy
Wonder if they will just not have a grading system at all. Hopefully that does not happen as it could destroy college chances for hard-working students.
“Equitable standards?”
Wouldn’t that mean that all students could read, write and do math on the same level? Let’s take a 70% passing grade.
Dumbing down in Oregon has reached a new peak.
I would not trust anyone that had a high school degree from an Oregon “school!”
Now that the Supreme Court ruled that schools couldn't be segregated into good schools for whites and separate but *snicker* "equal" schools for 'negroes', they are returning to their Antebellum roots.
You can make us put them in "our" schools, but you can't make us teach them anything useful!
Math isn't racist, liberalism is RACIST!!!
Translation: We’re now issuing “certificates of attendance” rather than diplomas since they mean nothing. 12 years of taxpayer-funded baby sitting is what you get, nothing more.
Then a couple weeks before the Government Mandated "testing" they tell the kids, you already know the answer in your head, now here is how you 'FILL OUT" on the test.
Still they're happy as can be, doin' what comes naturally.
My cousin down in Portland can't even write his name,
He signs his checks with x's and they cash them just the same.
(Revised old song)
Maybe she had to pass it to find out what’s in it and found someone from a red state to read and explain it to her.