[NYPOST] Good morning, students, it’s time to help you learn less and graduate all the same.That is the proposal the New York State Education Department just presented to the Board of Regents: To graduate from high school, students would no longer need to pass five Regents exams but could demonstrate their "learning" through alternative "assessments."
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What’s amazing is that it took a 64-member Blue Ribbon Commission more than a year to come up with this brilliant, groundbreaking innovation in education: Just dumb down standards, give everyone a shiny diploma, and we can congratulate ourselves for "improving outcomes."
And do it "equitably" so we can stop having to deal with politically embarrassing "achievement gaps."
What’s not to like?
The Russians, who have a long history of suffering governments that lie to them, would call such a piece of paper a "Potemkin diploma."
The Chinese, who have an even longer history of suffering governments that lie to them, have a more cynical meme to describe such travesty: "the thief covering his own ears while stealing the ringing bell."
Educrats are not fooling anyone.
Not in creating watered-down "pathways" to graduation, not in merging distinct diploma types that document different levels of academic achievement into a single diploma that hides the dumbing down, despite any added pretty "seals and endorsements," not in painting profusely that "equity" lipstick on a dumbed-down-diploma pig.
That the educracy has resorted to such transparent scams proves that our educrats can’t educate.
And they can’t educate at $38,000 per student per year, which in any honest world would constitute a major fraud.
As for the union teachers, with the latest contract raising the maximum annual salary to $151,271 by 2026, it’s not a bad living for not being able to teach.
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