Once again, the state Board of Regents is undermining education standards, this time by creating an “path” to a high-school diploma that doesn’t rely on schooling.
It’s part of the drive to junk proficiency measures, such as the Regents exams that have been the core requirement for the last century, in favor of a falsely-named “competency-based” approach that relies on projects, portfolios, and “work-based learning” such as apprenticeships.
Just two years ago, the State Education Department scrapped the requirement of passing five Regents exams to earn a high-school diploma; now SED and the Regents who direct it are going to ax the tests altogether — likely the final nail in New York’s academic-standards coffin.
In the age of artificial intelligence, subject matter proficiency is an option, claim the Regents (who hold advanced degrees).
This, even as they mandate K-12 propaganda about climate change — classes that will be a graduation requirement.
But demanding literacy and numeracy? Fuggedaboutit!
Good high schools will still produce competent graduates, but terrible ones will get to hand out diplomas on the basis of no real learning at all.
Serious vocational training might work as a real alternate path to a different class of diploma, but that’s not what the Regents are after.
One more time: The people now in charge of New York public education are enemies of genuine schooling.
Until that changes, parents will have to fight the system to do right by their children’s future.
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