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2021-08-10 -Great Cultural Revolution

Oregon governor signs bill suspending math, reading proficiency requirements for HS graduates

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-10 05:38|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Gov. Kate Brown, the Oregon Democrat, signed a bill last month with little fanfare that drops the requirement that high school students prove proficiency in reading, writing or math, before graduation. This is what I call the "Scarecrow Principle". You don't need an education. all you need is a diploma.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-08-10 06:22|| 2021-08-10 06:22|| Front Page Top

#2

NOTE TO HUMAN RESOURCES DEPT.
Aug. 10th, 2021 - Effective immediately design a simple basic job skills proficiency employment test. This test is to be administered to ALL new applicants regardless of Public,Private School Certifications, and/or claimed College degrees.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-10 06:50|| 2021-08-10 06:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Where was this guy when I was slogging my way thru Latin IV?

Posted by Mercutio 2021-08-10 08:02|| 2021-08-10 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 The military gave up on the value of HS certificates back in the 70s. They use the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) which if you pass validates the public school paper you show. Something like a third fail.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-10 08:39|| 2021-08-10 08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 NN2N1 -- ISTR that kind of test will leave your business open to a discrimination lawsuit. That's one reason college degrees have become minimum requirements for so many jobs.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-08-10 09:48|| 2021-08-10 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Is this that's called "Acknowledging the facts on the ground"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-10 10:21|| 2021-08-10 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 From the brilliant mind of one our best economists;
Kick the can down the road, its someone elses problem now.

Posted by Clons Ulating2492 2021-08-10 10:38|| 2021-08-10 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Historians will point to this when the collapse of the US is discussed.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-08-10 11:38|| 2021-08-10 11:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Scarecrow principle. "You don't need an education, all you need is a diploma". Wizard of Oz

Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-08-10 12:56|| 2021-08-10 12:56|| Front Page Top

#10 So taxpayers who pay for public schools with the expectation that kids will be educated can now ask why should they continue to pay when there is no guarantee that a diploma is worth any more than the paper upon which it is printed?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-08-10 13:48|| 2021-08-10 13:48|| Front Page Top

#11 the bill is intended to "truly reflect what every student needs to thrive in the 21st century."

What sort of 21st Century are they expecting? One where for some reason literacy and numeracy are unnecessary? This is just insanity. And will put Oregon students at a permanent disadvantage to students in every other state.

Posted by Tom 2021-08-10 14:44|| 2021-08-10 14:44|| Front Page Top

#12 The mask of "education" has been thrown on the bonfire.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-08-10 16:23|| 2021-08-10 16:23|| Front Page Top

#13 - ISTR that kind of test will leave your business open to a discrimination lawsuit.

It has been demonstrated that doing well on a general intelligence test correlates well with success on the job, no matter what the field. Not too surprising really. Unfortunately, this leads to the dreaded (*thunderclap*) DISPARATE OUTCOME (*reverb*). And there are Federal laws against that. Expensive ones.

You may think you are sorting by intelligence in order to find employees that will do well, but in the eyes of the Justice Department you are discriminating against people on the basis of race.

Restaurant Guy:"Come on, man! I just don't want to spend a month trying to train a guy to operate the dish machine only to fire him because he can't learn the job. It's not my fault that mean IQ differs among ethnic groups. I'm not hiring an entire ethnic group. I just need a dishwasher."
DoJ: "Shut up, you racist hater!"

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-10 16:55|| 2021-08-10 16:55|| Front Page Top

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