As the Gateway Pundit puts it, an Oregon high school diploma is no longer worth anything. (via Maggie’s Farm)
Oregon’s governor has signed a law whereby high students do not need to demonstrate any proficiency in reading or writing or counting. The state will suspend all judgment, drop all standards and hand out diplomas to whomever shows up. And, even then.
The reason is clear: students who fail will feel badly about themselves. Failing will hurt their feelings, and we can’t allow that. So, we will pretend that they have completed the requirements, because it will improve their self-esteem. Or some such.
Gateway Pundit quotes the news report:
Via The Post Millennial:
An Oregon high school diploma does not guarantee that students who earned it can read, write or do math at a high school level.
Governor Kate Brown dropped the requirement that students demonstrate they have achieved those essential skills by signing Senate Bill 744 into law. She declined again Friday to comment on why she supported suspending the proficiency requirements, reported OregonLive.
The bill was not entered into the legislative database until July 29, a departure from the standard practice of updating the public database the same day a bill is signed. Charles Boyle, the governor’s deputy communications director, said the governor’s staff told legislative staff the same day the governor signed the bill.
Boyle said in an emailed statement that suspending the reading, writing and math proficiency requirements will benefit “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of colour.”
First we had dumb and dumber. Now we have gotten to dumb, dumber and dumbest.
I need to start asking anesthesiologists if they graduated any school in Oregon.
ReplyDeleteBut it isn't only Oregon. Oregon simply made it public. Dumbing down has been going on for some time everywhere. You know someone has no math skill when they can't make change for a dollar.
My nephew graduated from the Oregon equivalent of Sidwell Friends or The Dalton School, but at least that was then and this is now, and he's a vascular surgeon in Philadelphia. At least his credentials were earned early enough not to be suspect.
ReplyDeleteI retired to Oregon. I've since moved. All I can say for Oregon is that it has no sales tax, and my first wife is buried there.
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