Justices Restore Exit Exam - Los Angeles Times

Justices Restore Exit Exam - Los Angeles Times

Lots of California news today! (Note also the Enron verdicts.)

I do understand the other side of this high school exit exam issue based on the fact that students don't get a good enough education here in CA, and that we do lack quality teachers, etc. (Frankly K-12 in CA does truly suck - my kids went through it. Too many parties, days off, and movies! What was that? I also have Illinois for comparison - where my kids started and where I went to school. Sooo much better!)

Given that K-12 is really pretty bad here, inexcusably bad here, and that CA is rated near the bottom of all the states (!), retaining the HS exit exam is still a better idea than doing away with it. Perhaps the schools do need that pressure to have the students actually learn something? Hopefully it wil make for less goofing around and slacking, and push administrators, teachers, parents, and students to get down to business already.

Now to improve the K-12 education!

Note that the HS exit exam only required 8th-grade math and 10th-grade English skills... Yeesh!