[Spooky]

For the next five years, an Oregon high school diploma will be no guarantee that the student who earned it can read, write or do math at a high school level.

Gov. Kate Brown had demurred earlier this summer regarding whether she supported the plan passed by the Legislature to drop the requirement that students demonstrate they have achieved those essential skills. But on July 14, the governor signed Senate Bill 744 into law.

Brown’s decision was not public until recently, because her office did not hold a signing ceremony or issue a press release and the fact that the governor signed the bill was not entered into the legislative database until July 29, a departure from the normal practice of updating the public database the same day a bill is signed.

The Oregonian asked the governor’s office when Brown’s staff notified the Legislature that she had signed the bill. Charles Boyle, the governor’s deputy communications director, declined to answer.

Boyle wrote in an emailed statement that suspending the reading, writing and math proficiency requirements while the state develops new graduation standards will benefit “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”

Lawmakers and the governor did not pass any major expansion of learning opportunities or supports for Black, Indigenous and students of color during this year’s legislative session.
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https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/...41cb0.html
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https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2021/SB744/

They lowered academic standards for the pandemic and decided to abolish it altogether in the name of equality? What a fucking clown world.

[Accident Man]

It would be easier to say what they really mean - everyone but white people.

[Spooky]

It would be easier to say what they really mean - everyone but white people.

They lowered academic standards for everyone so that "PoC" would not be the only uneducated ones. This will literally just make the youth retarded.

[Ladog]

This policy is pursued in many countries and the United States is no exception. I remember how many graduates were upset that they did not have a normal graduation. The educational system has suffered from the pandemic, but now everything is back to normal. My daughter is preparing for graduation and is trying to create graduation invitation that will be original. I think that soon everything will work out in the education system.

[Dismas]

If a diploma doesn't signify you are literate or capable of basic math, what does it signify?

[mothered]

If a diploma doesn't signify you are literate or capable of basic math, what does it signify?

Enough said.

[Spooky]

If a diploma doesn't signify you are literate or capable of basic math, what does it signify?

The equivalent of rewarding losers with participation trophies.

[mothered]

The equivalent of rewarding losers with participation trophies.

Spoiler:

[ElizabethSwann78]

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