EGAT (everybody gets a trophy) is a cultural rot that is making our children a nation of wusses. The idea that some people will fail and that it takes work to succeed is lost on too many people out there.
Here is the latest from the San Francisco Gate:
40,000 could get high school diplomas under bill sent to Jerry Brown
An estimated 40,000 former high school students would receive their diplomas under a bill headed to Gov. Jerry Brown.
The bill was approved 23-14 Thursday by the Senate during the final rush of the state Legislature, which has until Friday to send legislation to Brown.
Under SB172 students who failed the California High School Exit Exam since it debuted in 2006 would be eligible to receive their diplomas if they met all other graduation requirements. The bill, which is supported by the California Department of Education, also suspends the Exit Exam for the next three years while the state considers updating it to reflect the Common Core standards now being taught.
“We cannot in good conscious continue a graduation requirement that no one can meet,” said bill author Carol Liu, D-La Canada Flintridge. “SB172 does not permanently eliminate the Exit Exam ... it simply suspends the requirement to pass the Exit Exam while the issues are being studied.”
The test can be found here - if someone is trying to get into college without the ability to get a passing grade on this, they are going to fail spectacularly and this time will be wasted for everyone. California needs to examine their high school system as from 2006 to 2014, 249,000 students failed to pass this test. Maybe introduce merit-based promotions in the next round of collective bargening. I am reminded of this graph:
