How did we miss this one? LOL

[Tank]

high school diplomas for everyone!!!

 

http://www.allenbwest.com/2015/12/this-law-california-just-passed-may-signal-the-end-of-our-republic/

 

[Redondo]

That is sad. Kids need to learn to work hard to achieve things in life.

 

Having an education gives them the basic tools to get a job and have a career.

 

Just giving them a degree for showing up does not help them.

[arch stanton]

What I read says you don't have to pass an exit exam. It's been a while but I don't remember taking one of those.

[Amazing Larry]

Does any employer even give a crap about a high school diploma?

[halomatt]

What I read says you don't have to pass an exit exam. It's been a while but I don't remember taking one of those.

This.  We basically revert back to the "way it was when I was in public school". Everyone that finished "earned" a diploma.  Really though, the high school diploma is useless to employers.  It would seem the ones who might care are providing jobs to the ones who might struggle to earn one anyway. 

[Jobu]

That blog seems completely objective and focused on a clear, concise writing style that in no way treats its audience as rubes incapable of basic critical thinking. I think it's obvious that the author received a high school diploma.

[Glen]

I love the word "rubes."

[BaseballMom]

Both of my younger kids passed the "exit exam" when they were sophomores. They still had to go through the classes and earn the credits. It was meaningless.

[Schildog]

does fan since run 79 run that blog?

[Spirit]

I don't remember having to pass an exit exam.  I remember needing to have enough credits in order to graduate.  Kind of like earning a college degree.

 

Is it not that way anymore?

[Tank]

I love the word "rubes."

 

then you should check out the cartoons by the same name.

 

 

[halomatt]

I love the word "rubes."

Haha.  What a maroon!

 

(I love it too.)

[red321]

Should actually read something besides Breitbart and Alan West

 

Senate Bill 725 by Loni Hancock, D­-Oakland, was quickly passed by the Assembly last Thursday and by the Senate on Monday as urgency legislation to solve a dilemma that arose when about 5,000 students were denied the opportunity to retake the test in July. The state Department of Education cancelled the exam because its contract with the testing company was expiring and education officials wanted to avoid spending millions of dollars to renew the contract for a test that some believed was outdated, since it was not aligned with the new Common Core standards.

Gov. Jerry Brown did not issue a statement about why he signed the bill. But his office issued a statement that said he did not want students’ future plans to be jeopardized.

“Students who’ve been accepted into college should not be prevented from starting class this fall because of a test cancellation they could not control,” said Deputy Press Secretary Deborah Hoffman. “The governor signed this bill to ensure these students begin their college careers.”

....

Jack O’Connell, who authored the legislation that required the exit exam before he served as state Superintendent of Public Instruction from 2003-11, said in anEdSource commentary that this specific test, put into place in 2006, “was always meant to be temporary.”

“We were transitioning to new state academic standards, and we knew those standards would change again in the future,” he said. “I’ve always believed that our assessment and accountability systems need to be coherent and avoid duplicative and unnecessary testing, and the current version of the high school exit exam is neither aligned to our standards nor essential to the development of our new accountability system.”

 

http://edsource.org/2015/governor-signs-bill-exempting-seniors-from-exit-exam/85533

[ABC]

Does any employer even give a crap about a high school diploma?

 

govt does.

[ELEVEN]

I love the word "rubes."

pubes

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

I love the word "rubes."

 

It's pubes! With an "r"...

[Guest]

That website is...interesting. 

[CaliAngel]

A high school diploma to me is/was not about having the piece of paper to show employers. I don't think anyone has ever asked me to see it. In fact I don't think anyones even asked for my University Degree. A high school diploma is in many ways like a degree, it means you can stick to something long enough, and work hard enough, to show up when you need to and get the work done that is necessary over a certain course of time. It's kinda like a job prep internship to prepare you for the next chapter of your life.

 

I totally agree high school is a meaningless waste of time for a certain percent of intelligent youngsters who could better spend their time in a university or getting hands on experience in a field of their interest. If they can test out, more power to them. But just handing out degrees? What the f**k is going on? Why is this state, this country, continuing to cater to the lower echelon of society, breeding know-nothing numskulls, instead of telling them to wake the f**k up, and start getting their life together, and that things aren't going to be easy for them by fuc*ing it all off and getting it handed to them? Why is this the society people want to breed? They aren't just going to be automatically taken care of because they're alive.

 

This doesn't help anybody. If you can't read and write at an 8th grade level or do basic algebra by the time you're 16, I'm not really sure what you can do besides serve popcorn at the movie theater or push buttons at the Sears. Even then your job is short lived because before long if wages keep increasing, companies are going to be having computers and machines to take those jobs, because they don't have to pay them $15 an hour.

 

Have fun on the streets begging for money! Those folks sure look like they're having a blast in the cold texting while cruising on 2 wheeled non-hovering-boards!

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

[BaseballMom]

The so called exit exam was in addition to completing the courses and achieving passing grades and credits necessary to graduate.  High school kids are not "testing out".