As always clearly you're the racist. Why try to hide it you cuck?
Have we made you that frightened and ashamed?
By the way a non racist report of this bill shows that the essential skills test itself was passed by a Democrat who was on the the school board at the time is and is now in congress reassessing whether that policy worked as intended. Notice how the non racist article doesn't have any random quotes that aren't attributed to anyone about how minority kids can't read.
A closer look at Oregonâs decision to drop high school graduation âessential skillâ requirements
State Sen. Michael Dembrow, D-Portland, was serving on the State Board of Education when the board adopted Essential Skills in 2008.
“We were in the middle of looking at graduation requirements in all sorts of areas, and really focusing on trying to make education more relevant, putting more focus on applied education,” Dembrow said.
“So that students not only would have the math skills that allowed them to pass math tests, but could actually use those skills in the real world.”
But Dembrow said the execution of Essential Skills didn’t turn out the way he thought it would. Instead of having students apply what they learned through work samples, most districts relied on standardized tests to fulfill the requirement.
In 2019, the last year Essential Skills was required, students overwhelmingly used the state summative assessment or another approved standardized test over work samples. According to data from the Oregon Department of Education, 88% of reading essential skills, 77% of writing essential skills, and 73% of math essential skills were met through a standardized test.
“That was so far from what our thinking was at the time, or certainly my thinking,” Dembrow said.
Before Zach Hudson was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 2020, he taught in the special education department at Reynolds High School.
At Reynolds, he said students had access to both options — a test or work samples. Hudson said he’s not a “fan” of standardized tests because of the time out of the classroom, but he said the work sample process didn’t work as well for some of the students he worked with.
“It certainly wasn’t an easy or straightforward way to show mastery for many of the students whom I was working with,” Hudson said. “And I’d have students be very very stressed, for instance, because they knew the math, and could get the right answer, and yet they had difficulty writing a step-by-step explanation of how they got their answer.”
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