by Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News:
Board member claims those opposed to move are displaying “bigotry” and “racial superiority”
School officials in Oregon have decided that proficiency in reading, writing and math are no longer necessary in order to graduate, reasoning that minority children are not testing well and therefore the current standards are “discriminatory”.
Yes, really.
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Oregon students will no longer need to be proficient in reading, writing, and math to graduate. They’re doing this cuz of “inequity” and having standards to graduate “disproportionately harmed students of color.”
The Oregon Dept of Education is racist. pic.twitter.com/8N1XvtdVh7
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 24, 2023
The Daily Mail reports that the State Board of Education there voted to suspend the need to prove standards in core skills for FIVE years because ‘equity’, or something.
Woke Oregon school chiefs suspend need for high schoolers to prove math, reading and writing skills to graduate for FIVE MORE YEARS – to bolster minority students who ‘don’t test well’ https://t.co/8HIzLU96FX pic.twitter.com/c9SzD4sc5Q
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) October 24, 2023
The standards were put on hold during the pandemic, but no simply will not be brought back until 2027 as they have been deemed ‘harmful’ to students of color, students with disabilities and those learning English as a second language, the report notes.
Board members claims that state-mandated standardized tests will still be administered to most high school students in the State, but will not be employed to determine whether a student has the skills necessary to graduate.
“The only thing we are suspending is the inappropriate use of how those assessments were being used,” state board member Vicky López Sánchez, a dean at Portland Community College, declared during a meeting, part of which is highlighted in the video below.