More than 9,000 students were absent from Portland schools on Monday. Nearly twice as many teacher substitute requests were made this year compared to the week before winter break in 2022.
This also caught my attention, the state requires 900 hours of instruction, but not that the students be present for it?
Well now that we’re not requiring reading or math competency to graduate high school, does any of it really matter?
Only 8 states still have high school graduation tests.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oregon-graduation-proficiencies/
Oregon state law requires that, in order to obtain a high school diploma, students must obtain at least 24 credits between grades nine and 12, including: at least three credits in math; at least four credits in English; three in science; and three in social science, among other prerequisites. In order to obtain those credits, a student is required to achieve at least a passing grade in each class. SB 744 will not change or remove those requirements.
Although not codified in the same way as a standardized test, passing all those classes and obtaining the 24 credits required to get a high school diploma can quite reasonably be regarded as de facto proof that a student possesses the basic academic competencies at the heart of media coverage of SB 744 in August 2021
Ugh, I supported the teachers, but the union fucked up negotiations (along with the school board) and now they’re not doing their best to make up the time?
It’s a giant black eye for the teachers union, right when we need unions more than any time in the last 100 years. They’ve lost a lot of support.
Seems like the parents are doing the same thing, or at least the kids are… “No, no, mom, it’s Christmas break…”
