California to give HS Diplomas to flunkies

[BmorePat87]

I'm not a fan of standardize testing, but the test was apparently easy.

I mean, there are 1.772m high school students in California right now. if only 40k didn't graduate because of it over 10 years, we can say 4k a year, so 16k of those 1.772m won't pass because of it. That's .9%. POINT NINE PERCENT. That's an incredible pass rate at 99.1%. I think they quoted 97%, so that must take into account dropouts. Still 97%.

In our state, we have an alternative route if you cannot pass the state tests (9th grade Math, 10th grade English, Bio, and Govt). You complete these projects that demonstrate the knowledge. It's basically huge packets of work that the teacher cannot help with, just facilitate.

A better policy than just suspending testing is allow this last group a chance. Anyone from the class of 2015 who wants to keep trying should be allowed to, just suspend it going forward. Yea, it sucks if you're 2015 compared to 2016, but that happens. Requirements change. Politicians who don't know shit about education tend to not make good policy decisions.


that said, diplomas are pretty meaningless.