So, this little gem has popped up as SB 172 in California.<\/p>\n
In it, it reads:<\/p>\n
The bill would, until July 31, 2018, require the governing board or body of a local educational agency, as defined, and the State Department of Education on behalf of state special schools, to grant a diploma of graduation from high school to any pupil who completed grade 12 in the 2003\u201304 school year or a subsequent school year and has met all applicable graduation requirements other than the passage of the high school exit examination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The biggest question here is why have a high school exit examination at all?\u00a0 If the student does everything else, this law states they don’t even have to take the test to graduate.<\/p>\n
So why was the test put in to begin with?<\/p>\n
To make sure that kids who graduated actually knew things?<\/p>\n
Perhaps, but all over all one sees is how poorly test scores are.\u00a0 They continue to drop despite spending more and more money on education.<\/p>\n
So again, the question is why have this exam if it means nothing to graduate?<\/p>\n
Here’s a better idea, stop the tests and use the money that was given to the tests and give the teachers a raise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, this little gem has popped up as SB 172 in California. In it, it reads: The bill would, until July 31, 2018, require the governing board or body of a local educational agency, as defined, and the State Department of Education on behalf of state special schools, to grant a diploma of graduation from […]
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