[HN Gopher] Oregon governor signs bill ending reading and math s...
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Oregon governor signs bill ending reading and math skill
requirements
Author : jseliger
Score : 16 points
Date : 2021-11-08 21:05 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (news.yahoo.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (news.yahoo.com)
| WalterGR wrote:
| Source is Washington Examiner:
| https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oregon-bill-ending-r...
| blacksmith_tb wrote:
| Though I believe the story first broke here[1].
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| 1: https://archive.md/9x8bs
| GaryTang wrote:
| This is certainly one way to reduce enrollment.
| sokoloff wrote:
| > "I worry that by adopting this bill, we're giving up on our
| kids,"
|
| That's not the part that's worrisome to me. I care whether a
| student can get to 12th grade or age 18 without being able to
| read and do basic math.
|
| If they've failed to achieve that, _that's the problem_ , not
| that they're given a high school diploma anyway. The giving up
| happened years earlier and over time, not at graduation.
| Yoofie wrote:
| If there is no requirement to prove that, you know, you learned
| anything....why bother with high school at all?
| j_walter wrote:
| On a not unrelated note, Kate Brown has been under fire for
| Oregon's awful HS graduation rates. While all of the changes are
| being made as "a response to the pandemic and a reassessment of
| our current graduation requirements"...it all stinks of gaming
| the numbers so that it looks like graduation rates are better
| than they should be.
|
| https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/01/oregon-graduati...
| tadfisher wrote:
| None of this is new, though. Two decades ago my high school had
| an _enrollment_ rate of 60%. Even with education mandates and
| legal consequences, Oregon has a problem with poverty and
| equitability that disincentivizes school attendance. We still
| lead the nation in malnutrition, for instance.
|
| So I don't see this as Kate Brown cooking the books, but more
| of an opportunity for a realistic assessment of what our goals
| should be for education and how to expand access and
| participation.
| j_walter wrote:
| I went to HS in rural Oregon where the "you need to go to
| college to succeed" didn't work for most of the students.
| Trade options like metal shop, wood shop and construction
| slowly got less funding or were dropped all together. Those
| things kept a lot of HS kids interested enough to stay long
| enough to graduate, let alone have a future career.
|
| Don't worry, Oregon tried a new test and sent every HS
| student at Lincoln High School a $1400 debit card a few
| months ago "accidentally". I'm sure that will help reduce
| poverty and nutrition. Don't worry...it just came at the
| expense of federal tax payers.
|
| https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/11/oregon-
| accident...
| [deleted]
| tibbydudeza wrote:
| Why bother with schools then ???.
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