Submitted by Marvin McConoughey (not verified) on December 23, 2007 - 11:14.
Yes! Let there be universal high school exit exams. The exams should be at a level of difficulty sufficient to demonstrate acceptable, though low, levels of learning sufficient to merit action by a prospective employer to employ the graduate. It is viciously racist to suggest that we should not expect our hundreds of different minorities to learn well in K-12. It is racist to suggest that some minorities are so lacking in intellect that they cannot perform well in school despite high effort. We must reject racism and focus on individual performance, the great equalizer.
Whatever one's personal familial concerns, the broad objective of education is to provide the nation with graduates who merit being employed. And that requires some minimal level of graduate quality. An exit exam verifies that the trillion dollars a year spent on American education has brought, or not brought, acceptable results from that history-making mammoth investment.
High school exit exams.
Submitted by Marvin McConoughey (not verified) on December 23, 2007 - 11:14.
Yes! Let there be universal high school exit exams. The exams should be at a level of difficulty sufficient to demonstrate acceptable, though low, levels of learning sufficient to merit action by a prospective employer to employ the graduate. It is viciously racist to suggest that we should not expect our hundreds of different minorities to learn well in K-12. It is racist to suggest that some minorities are so lacking in intellect that they cannot perform well in school despite high effort. We must reject racism and focus on individual performance, the great equalizer.
Whatever one's personal familial concerns, the broad objective of education is to provide the nation with graduates who merit being employed. And that requires some minimal level of graduate quality. An exit exam verifies that the trillion dollars a year spent on American education has brought, or not brought, acceptable results from that history-making mammoth investment.