Re: State Board Votes Down Exit Exam Options

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From: Scott Hays <shays@ccwebster.net>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:47:22 -0800
Subject: Re: [arn-l] State Board Votes Down Exit Exam Options


... The general public doesn't understand why these teacher issues are 
important....
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Don't underestimate your fellow citizens.


 I know, Art, that this description presents a not-so-subtle suggestion 
of "conspiracy" ... a possibility to which you are not open to hearing 
...
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Of course I'm open to the existence of conspiracy, what I object to is 
the unquestioned assumption that conspiracy is the only explanation.


 However, in relation to that Exit Exam that the notoriously 
non-progressive State Board of Education continues to support, let me 
just say that Californians have been graduating from high school for a 
very long time without benefit of a high school exit exam to "test" 
their worthiness. If, as some claim, they are "unprepared" for adult 
life by the coursework they have completed ... well, life itself has 
(and will continue to) help them sort that out. The "Exit Exam" is a 
red herring, used only to hit certain populations of students over the 
head. ...
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Unbelievable.  If you let kids play with loaded guns, life will sort 
them out also.  I really don't think that is a good argument for 
letting kids play with loaded guns.  The average African-American 
senior is achieving at the level of the average White eighth-grader and 
you're still whistling your tunes against the Governor, the Board, the 
Business Roundtable, whoever.  Knock, knock, reality calling Hays.

Art