[Mariner]

“For the next five years, 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.”

It hasn’t been for 50 years.

Their demonstrated skills standards are closer to 5th grade.

Same with every public school system.

All standards, where they even still exist, are tuned to the average kid of color. Average IQ of 85. Barely able to make change, struggles with long division and can’t comprehend a newspaper article. It’s difficult to underestimate a kid with an 85 IQ.

That’s the reality of modern America.

Why there are white and asian kids in public school is baffling to me. There is absolutely nothing there for them.

[hanamizu]

“It hasn’t been for 50 years.Their demonstrated skills standards are closer to 5th grade.

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I used to teach adults to pass their G.E.D.s. Naturally, we give them a test at the beginning to see where they were academically. Nearly all topped out at 5th-grade level on the math test. The reason—back in the day fifth grade was where you were expected to master fractions.

But I have to wonder about why the Hispanics rate three descriptors, “Latino, Latina, Latinx” while the other colored students only rate one. The words Negro and Negress are available as are brave and squaw—wonder why they didn’t use them?

[gundog]

Oregon was pretty good at stratifying different levels of capability, when I was in school. Pretty much a three-tiered system for language, math, and science.