You can't make this up....

[nh_mopar_fan]

Some students are protesting their school's decision to not let them participate in the graduation
ceremony after failing the state's competency test.

No, that's not the funny part.

Check out the student's sign in the picture.


http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa070524_wz_taksprotest.6fe879b.html

[68chrgrwife]

ok my question is how do you have a 3.5 GPA and be top of the class and fail this test?   And yes that sign is dumb!!

[PocketThunder]

what does the sign say?  My screen is bad.

[nh_mopar_fan]

"Let are kids walk"

[Mean 318]

How is a 3.5 GPA the top of the class?

[hemihead]

How is a 3.5 GPA the top of the class?

When everyone else gets below that.

[Mean 318]

Thanks SO much... its so clear now! I just remember that there were always a few kids who had a 4.0 and it wasn't uncommon to see kids with 3.6-3.8

[RD]

"Let are kids walk"

for those who also graduated with a 3.5gpa and were at the top of their class and reading the above statement, it is supposed to say:

"let OUR kids walk"

now you see why they failed.  they probably were just farting off and didnt care and now it came around to bite them in the butt.  oh well, hope they learned a lesson, but of course, they will blame everyone else for their own mistakes, because they, at the ripe ages of 17 & 18 know it all. sheesh!

[Mike DC]

It's messed up. 

There's a huge disparity between what some public high schools demands of kids versus other ones. 

I'm convinced it's part of the reason that the HS diploma is valued so little by the job market anymore.
A lot fewer decent jobs would be demanding $60-100K worth of college education, if only a HS diploma still meant half as much as it used to.

 

[6pkrunner]

We are slowly degrading back to the days when one or two of the elders held all the knowledge for the village. With social grading, "no one left behind" and other feel-good policies we have produced a downward spiral in the knowledge base of successive generations. "You reap what you sow" comes to mind. I know that every generation has its percentage of non-Einsteins but the education system seems intent on increasing that percentage at all costs. And doing quite well, I might add.

[Brock Samson]

     eye igre


 


  Stratocharger:

Doing my part for global warming and dipletion of are whorld's resources.
sinse 1957

[Charger-Bodie]

i dint gradiate on the top of me class but i still getted to walk accross that dere stage wit the rest of em to git my diploma

[Rolling_Thunder]

this must be in CA (link didnt work for me)  - - -   here's the deal...     the state has imposed a manditory test to check what students have learned in the basic fields of education, reading comprehension, mathmatics, and writing composition. if high school seniors fail this exam they are held back...         all in all a good idea in my book...      however you have a large amount of dumb-shits and pussies out here who claim the test is "racist" and designed to keep African Americans as well as Hispanic Americans from graduating...       I love it...       I guess they are openly admitting stupidity is a racial issue...                 This test is nothing difficult for people who pays attention through school until the end of his sophomore year....        literally the equivancy (sp?) is that of 10th grade 

[dodgecharger-fan]

Passing that test is a condition that must  be met in order to receive a diploma. Period.

http://www.fortworthisd.org/studentsparents/graduation.html

I guess what has been left out of the rulebook is the fact that if you don't get your diploma, you don't deserve to walk the stage.

Is that such an abstract concept that it needs to be spelled out in specific terms?

I had to pick up a course credit to get my college diploma. So, I didn't get to "graduate" with all my friends.
When I did get my diploma, I got it in the mail. No big deal. If I just wanted friends I would have just went out and made friends. I went to college to learn and get the piece of paper that said I did a decent job at learning. The only other important thing to me was to show my Dad that all his hard work to get me through college didn't go to waste.

[Brock Samson]

  dare's dis ting kalled sphellcheck 
itz down dare somware... 

[dkn1997]

I know in college, they let pretty much anyone walk the walk, even people with another semester. 

and by the way, college is the new high school. 

[73dodge]

I know in college, they let pretty much anyone walk the walk, even people with another semester. 

and by the way, college is the new high school. 

Reason number #1247 to home school your kids.


What difference does it make that this kid can't spell? Besides it all comes down to being able to walk on to a stage where you are the CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE for 3 seconds and pretend you are the American Idol winner in front of dozens of adoring fans. I bet that's all they care about anyway, who cares that you are dumber than a pepperoni pizza  you will get a scholarship to a local university in California paid for by tax payers, like your high school education was, your admission to college will be based solely on some physical metric instead of intelligence. Then you can skate through college come out the other side with another piece of paper and then DEMAND that someone give you a job making $130,000.00 a year as a waiter in the local Applebees.

Yep ain't public edumacation the greatest?


Besides standardized tests only guarantee one thing, that teachers will spend the year teaching the kids what the correct answers to the questions are anyways. Teaching kids to THINK critically has been long abandoned by public education decades ago and now all teaching is done with an eye to teaching useless facts not to THINK Which really is just indoctrination.   

Case in point, my nephews are learning math but they are taught to find the answer to complex addition problems by placing numbers on a grid and then drawing lines across the numbers and when they draw the lines the right way they get the answer to the question. But the problem is that they have NO idea why that answer is correct, all they know is that the lines are correct across the grid get them the right answer. That to me is scary, they have no understanding of the BASIC concept of math they just know how to draw lines across a grid to get the numbers to line up and get the correct answer. 

That is the basic philosophy of teaching now, and the premise of standardize testing, the ends justifies the means. 2+2=4 but how do you get that answer is something entirely different, they have no idea why 2+2=4, just that 4 is the correct answer.

[TeeWJay426]

this must be in CA (link didnt work for me)

It was actually Texas.... but Mass has a similar requirement as well. I don't see why they think they should be able to 'walk the stage' with their classmates when they didn't meet requirements for graduating.... when I graduated HS many years ago, we had 2 that didn't make it. They were left out of everything, and no one protested it a bit. But that was a few years ago, before the dumbing-down of the public education system....

[BMOTOXSTAR]

Looks like that kid's parent is a dumb ass. Blame it all on the parents.

[red72chrgr]

Looks like that kid's parent is a dumb ass. Blame it all on the parents.

Yes and no. Some blame on parents but you have to remember, kids will always find a way to ignore that which is truly important until it's too late.

I know in college, they let pretty much anyone walk the walk, even people with another semester.

and by the way, college is the new high school.

Reason number #1247 to home school your kids.


What difference does it make that this kid can't spell? Besides it all comes down to being able to walk on to a stage where you are the CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE for 3 seconds and pretend you are the American Idol winner in front of dozens of adoring fans. I bet that's all they care about anyway, who cares that you are dumber than a pepperoni pizza you will get a scholarship to a local university in California paid for by tax payers, like your high school education was, your admission to college will be based solely on some physical metric instead of intelligence. Then you can skate through college come out the other side with another piece of paper and then DEMAND that someone give you a job making $130,000.00 a year as a waiter in the local Applebees.

Yep ain't public edumacation the greatest?


Besides standardized tests only guarantee one thing, that teachers will spend the year teaching the kids what the correct answers to the questions are anyways. Teaching kids to THINK critically has been long abandoned by public education decades ago and now all teaching is done with an eye to teaching useless facts not to THINK Which really is just indoctrination.

Case in point, my nephews are learning math but they are taught to find the answer to complex addition problems by placing numbers on a grid and then drawing lines across the numbers and when they draw the lines the right way they get the answer to the question. But the problem is that they have NO idea why that answer is correct, all they know is that the lines are correct across the grid get them the right answer. That to me is scary, they have no understanding of the BASIC concept of math they just know how to draw lines across a grid to get the numbers to line up and get the correct answer.

That is the basic philosophy of teaching now, and the premise of standardize testing, the ends justifies the means. 2+2=4 but how do you get that answer is something entirely different, they have no idea why 2+2=4, just that 4 is the correct answer.

dare's dis ting kalled sphellcheck
itz down dare somware...

Ah yes, spellcheck. The invention to further dumb down society. Funny how people can't read a dictionary but can use spellcheck. This was NOT to meant to be a personal affront to you Brock, just what you typed. 

[red72chrgr]

  My wording should've been better on the last statement I made. 

[73dodge]

Looks like that kid's parent is a dumb ass. Blame it all on the parents.

yep, the kids parents probably thought the sign was a good idea and helped them with it

[73dodge]

watch the video, there are like 4 people in this "protest" geez

Why do they need to walk the stage now they got their 15 minutes of fame or should I say their 1:49 minutes of fame. 

[Harlow]

3.5 is pretty good, but there are kids at my school that have above a 4.0 because of IB/AP classes (an A is worth 5 points rather than 4), so technically kids can have 5.0's now a days.

[bull]

If I saw a high school senior carrying that sign I'd bust them back to 8th grade just for the hell of it. Try again, Knucklehead.