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On 22 Oct 2023, HangTextDrivers <[email protected]> posted some news:[email protected]:

They have cancelled the tests to graduate !! The officials come
flat out and say it's because blacks do so terrible on the
standardized tests!! If it was up to me , all, students would have to
take the SAT and get 500+ on both sections to graduate. 95% of blacks
would flunk.

https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-says-students -dont-need-to-prove-mastery-of-reading-writing-or-math-to-graduate-citi ng-harm-to-students-of-color.html

oct 22 2023 Oregon high school students won’t have to prove basic
mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate from high school until
at least 2029, the state Board of Education decided unanimously on
Thursday, extending the pause on the controversial graduation
requirement that began in 2020.

The vote went against the desires of dozens of Oregonians who
submitted public comments insisting the standards should be
reinstated, including former Republican gubernatorial candidate
Christine Drazan. Backlash against the lowered standard had already
delayed the vote, originally slated to take place in September.

Opponents argued that pausing the requirement devalues an Oregon
diploma.

But leaders at the Oregon Department of Education and members of the
state school board said requiring all students to pass one of several standardized tests or create an in-depth assignment their teacher
judged as meeting state standards was a harmful hurdle for
historically marginalized students, a misuse of state tests and did
not translate to meaningful improvements in students’ post high
school success.

Higher rates of students of color, students learning English as a
second language and students with disabilities ended up having to take intensive senior-year writing and math classes to prove they deserved
a diploma.

Oregon queers are setting those black imbeciles up for lifelong prison
cells.

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