I see Tony Bennett wants all high school students to take an online course in order to graduate.
That might be worthwhile if
– high school seniors could pass a test based on an eighth-grade textbook from the 1950’s
and
– college wasn’t essentially a remedial high school for the first two years.
Learn a trade, kids. Your high schools are failing you. Or, hmm, it’s a shame they aren’t.
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That is a stupid idea. I think Bennett is becoming just like every other politician — in love with his own ideas and power hungry.
The best people to determine the local schools is the local school board. The State is only marginally better than the Feds.
I have no issue with trying to monitor failing schools, but the State-Mandated crap is becoming No Child Left Behind on steroids. The State has mandated a daily 1 hour reading time for all grades. No exceptions. There is not a kindergarten or first grade student alive who can sit and look at a book (especially when they cannot read) for ONE HOUR. Since the State is pushing to have kids go to school younger, the kids are even more immature, making the process even more ridiculous.
Good intentions will not fix the schools. More testing will not fix the schools. Perhaps we need fewer “experts” and more of the three Rs.
It’s just the same-old same-old: “We’re unable (or unwilling) to accomplish what we’re supposed to, so we’ll distract you by noisily attempting something else.”
It’s just like with children: Tell ’em to clean their room, come back an hour later to find nothing done, and get told “but daddy, look at this pretty picture I drew.”