CCSD lowers standards

Your state board of education today lowered standards and allowed school districts to dummy-down the curriculum.

Okay...translation:

R-J:

With no objections and no discussion today, the Nevada State Board of Education approved a proposal to allow the state's school districts to change standards for high school grade advancement in the interest of boosting passage of the state's proficiency exam and the state's high school graduation rate.

The new rule, if adopted by the Clark County School District, would allow students who have attended high school for three years to be considered seniors whether or not they have successfully completed the required number of units.

This would allow these students to take the proficiency exam as seniors -- which means they would have four chances to pass the test instead of just one during that fourth year.

The high school graduation rate of Nevada ranks 50th in the nation.

50th in the nation is crazy. Someone is clearly dropping the ball up in Carson City. And with no objections nor discussion from Board members, it seems as though they've taken an "I don't care anymore" attitude.

Has it really come to this...have we stopped caring?

E.C. :)