Oregon again says students don’t need to prove mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate, citing harm to students of color

OregonLive ^ | Oct. 19, 2023 | Sami Edge

[FlingWingFlyer]

I agree.

[Nateman]

Frederick Douglass was a slave who taught himself to read and write. In his 1848 "Letter to Thomas Auld": Douglass denounced his former slaveholder for leaving Douglass's family illiterate:

Your wickedness and cruelty committed in this respect on your fellow-creatures, are greater than all the stripes you have laid upon my back, or theirs. It is an outrage upon the soul—a war upon the immortal spirit, and one for which you must give account at the bar of our common Father and Creator.

[Cen-Tejas]

......well, he was a good worker. He just could not communicate in writing.

[Lockbar]

A generation of mouth breathers will rule the world

[dsrtsage]

They should require them only for white and asian students…publicly

[lastchance]

It is. Maybe someone can explain to me how it is not racist.

[lastchance]

“But leaders at the Oregon Department of Education and members of the state school board said requiring all students to pass one of several standardized tests or create an in-depth assignment their teacher judged as meeting state standards was a harmful hurdle for historically marginalized students, a misuse of state tests and did not translate to meaningful improvements in students’ post high school success.”

They really do hate the whole idea of merit and helping students achieve academic success. Fair enough, at least they are honest. My response is this,
If higher standards do not translate to meaningful improvement it sure cannot be argued that lower standards do so. In that case why have them in school at all once they reach an age where they can be legally employed?

[lastchance]

And their wars.

[lastchance]

That could backfire. Try making a mathematical mistake when carrying for the cartels. The result ain’t gonna be pretty.

[healy61]

The South did indeed rise again. Those sneaky Southerners have found a new way to keep the minority population uneducated. Works like a charm. Minorities need to lay down the law with their schools.

[Reno89519]

Well they can get jobs pumping gas in Oregon. Maybe.

[The Great RJ]

Idiots....what greater harm could they do to students of color than to turn them out illiterate and ignorant. Their schools will become failure factories

[FamiliarFace]

It’s harmful to an individual to try to master any of the basics.
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[Pajamajan]

Idiocracy.

[clearcarbon]

"Oregon again says students don’t need to prove mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate, citing harm to students of color"

[linMcHlp]

Harm Crimes

[RetiredTexasVet]

Keep them dumb down and on the plantation.

[goodnesswins]

I do not think there are really enough “thugs” in Oregon to riot...altho the racists (white women/antifa) will

[Svartalfiar]

ended up having to take intensive senior-year writing and math classes to prove they deserved a diploma. That denied those students the opportunity to take an elective, despite the lack of evidence the extra academic work helped them in the workplace or at college, they said.

In what possible way would an elective fun class help students better than improving their terrible knowledge in math or reading?

Maybe if standards and education were improved at the lower grade levels, the students would already be smarter and not have to take remedial addition. Then they could take that all-important underwater basket-weaving intro!

[Twotone]

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