This is called ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations‘. Oregon Governor Kate Brown has cancelled the proficiency standards for reading, writing and math from High School graduation requirements.
The governors office says “suspending the reading, writing and math proficiency requirements … will benefit “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”
In essence, the students of color are not smart enough to learn reading, writing or math – so they shouldn’t be expected to read, write or understand mathematics.
Kate Brown looks, sounds and acts like a typical left-wing moonbat. It’s hard to imagine a state governor saying the minority students in the state are not smart enough to pass proficiency standards; thereby signaling her extreme racist perspectives- and gaining cheers from her leftist tribe; yet here we are.
OREGON – […] Through a spokesperson, the governor declined again Friday to comment on the law and why she supported suspending the proficiency requirements.
Brown’s decision was not public until recently, because her office did not hold a signing ceremony or issue a press release and the fact that the governor signed the bill was not entered into the legislative database until July 29, a departure from the normal practice of updating the public database the same day a bill is signed.
The Oregonian/OregonLive asked the governor’s office when Brown’s staff notified the Legislature that she had signed the bill. Charles Boyle, the governor’s deputy communications director, said the governor’s staff notified legislative staff the same day the governor signed the bill. (read more)
You will own nothing and you will be happy
Run from government schools as fast as you can.
THE LAUGH OF THE MORNING. HOW PATHETIC ….
Welp, we need a senator to run to a microphone and declare that we need to increase the H1-B visa limit…
Mike Lee will be happy to oblige.
LOL! Exactly the person I was referring to.
Ted Cruz would to. He said he would raise it 500% in the 2016 campaign for Prez
Show me a Republican who wont? One Big Uniparty in DC.
Just another example of idiocy from a leftist that will go unchallenged in the media. Stand by for her lecture on how state lockdown rules follow the science.
When they can’t change the facts, they change the standards. In the future they can say being educated is nothing to do with crime rate as there are many highly educated people in Prisons.
The governor stole this move from the COVID playbook.
The Russians launched animals into space, the animals didn’t launch themselves into space. Until the animals show the capability to do so, I’ll continue to think of them as animals.
Well said. And oh so true.
With Dominion all things are possible.
With a Constitutional Republic they can’t have a Great Reset.
America continues dumbing down its education systems, to mask the continuing chronic endemic poor performance of certain identity classes caused by their own subcultures proudly exalting illiteracy, ignorance, and disrespect for authority.
While Asia and others are driving higher performance and moving into the dominant global position.
This trend has been increasing for decades. Subject of this article is just a recent especially egregious example. The “progressives” are throwing all pretense out the window now, trying to keep the failing students from logjamming everything, but this too is heading to a tectonic failure.
Just another way to give them all “you won too” trophy’s ….even tho they came in last.
It’s better if the slaves aren’t educated
“… to mask the continuing chronic endemic poor performance of certain identity classes …”
In great need of masking is the poorest performing of all the identity classes, i.e. educators.
Keep in mind, many to most government school educators are from those same subcultures, depending on the school.
Better educators produce better outcomes with students, most of the time.
And vice versa.
Look at Baltimore, for example.
Next will come grades and testing are racist. I declare integration a failure. It. Did not help the blacks and hurt the whites.
“Next will come grades and testing are racist. I declare integration a failure. It. Did not help the blacks and hurt the whites.”
Hundreds of colleges and universities have dropped SAT’s and ACT’s including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cal Tech:
https://blog.prepscholar.com/colleges-dont-require-sat-act-scores-2020-admissions-covid
I have been telling people for many years that my brilliant teacher friend in Ohio said they had only 18 words students must learn before graduation. They had to work these words into their teaching plans.
Sorry, I should have stated that they are a highly educated, multi-degreed math teacher.
18 words.
18 words? Lemme guess:
America sucks. How high should I jump? Your wish is my command. Thank you sir I’ll have another!
☠️???
My former Principal hated me because I openly challenged this exact policy. He wanted to eliminate all grading of all assignments except the “unit” tests. I mocked him in the staff meeting asking why test at all? Just make them take the State test in April, and if they pass, they’re good. No more homework, no more quizzes. No more tests. Teachers wouldn’t have to present any content. Perfect!
Anyway, i told him that lowering expectations is just code for lowering academic standards.
When I asked my students what they thought would happen if the school stopped grading, they broke out laughing.
So glad I quit that job.
BRAVO Hokkoda!
Public service announcement. If your comment includes words describing female genitalia it will not be approved, nor will future comments. If you already comment here then you know the standards and usually most respect them. Anyone I see making such a comment gets no second chance.
I am not sure if this is some kind of puritanical mysogynist belief holding all things feminine as dirty and unmentionable. What about mentioning male genitalia? Who is Menagerie? I mean, let’s face it – if it were not for genitalia none of us would be born. WTH?
You are a guest here. You might want to show a little respect. Want to use any word you want? Easy peasy, create your own blog.
What a horrible disservice.
Yeah, those Asians really suck at math.
That is what I was thinking too. The Asians will be upset at being included in this category.
I truly feel sorry for all of these children who are stuck in this rut called public education.
I think this GUV & THE LEGISLATORS BURIED THIS BILL SIGNING is because parents are fighting back now, more than at any time ever. Can you imagine if they knew this?
The Education Reform Industrial Complex has been advocating ignorance for decades. Parents think reform improves education, which it does not. Schools get allocated millions of dollars to expand administrations. This is a key path to administrative advancement, and the true purpose of education reform. Politicians get to claim that they have improved education.
Gov. Weld of Massachusetts doubled the education budget for his state. He required that there be a state test to track the effects of the reform. As the teachers learned to teach to the test, scores improved. However, SAT scores never budged. They couldn’t cheat on those. The people of Massachusetts believe that their educational system is excellent. In reality, they bought a pig in a poke.
Yes, it is very much like those in charge of law and order telling us what crimes/laws they will not arrest or prosecute for. The laws are on the books, they will just be ignored.
Then they claim that crime is down from coast to coast.
NO, crime is NOT down. You just stopped arresting the criminals at the same time that you also let more and more criminals out of the prisons and onto our streets, and at the same time you are letting in illegal alien$ by the MILLION$, who have a special “no arrest” class that citizens do not have, unless you are a DIM.
The questions
You’ve also just described government-subsidized “green energy”.
We keep flooding people who do not know English across the southern border. What do you expect to happen to test scores? Duh!
Modern day Jim Crow Laws. “kep’m stupid”
I have very little faith in state run education because of this kind of stupidity. We hear about kids that slip through the system without any chance of success because of bad or lack of education. The state of Oregon is now making it official policy to be stupid and unemployable.
It isn’t about the students who fail; teachers fail the students.
So what she’s in effect saying is that Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color are too stupid to pass any of those subjects.
What, pray tell, is a “Latinx”? If it means, as I suspect, a person of Latin American origin of indeterminate gender, why does Governor Brown not have a speshul mane for blacks of indeterminate gender? Or Asians? Or Indigenous? Homosexuality and manufactured gender dysphoria know neither racial nor ethnic boundaries.
No one wins when you dumb everyone down just because African Americans cant learn.
That is one of the dumbest things ever written on this site.
Of course African Americans can learn. They learn just fine. It’s the stoopid teachers who cannot teach who are the problem.
Gee wiz, were you educated in Kate Brown’s Oregon Education system? Sure seems like it with a statement like that.
Did she also sign the letter condeming them to a life long place of government dependancy? Because that s what it is , who will ever hire someone wgo cant count read or reason?
There it is! A ‘selected’ political puke declaring that institutionalized woke academia is in fact a . . . sad JOKE. Only parents as dumb as their woke kids would spend money to subject them to such. BARF. The Republic has been completely sacked by the likes of global multi-billion-dollar Corps, Soros, the Chicoms and their paid, ‘selected’ polluticians and their appointed bureauRATS.
“It’s hard to imagine a state governor saying the minority students in the state are not smart enough to pass proficiency standards …”
Not only that, but she also imagines lowering standards will somehow help these kids!
Not only does it hurt the kids it’s meant to help. It hurts the smart kids more. The citizens who are paying taxes to support this farce need to rise up en masse to protest this.
As a citizen… how many fuc*ing things can we rise up against??? Sorry, having a bad morning! It’s only 8 am and already disgusted:( Usually it takes til at least noon…
We should have stopped paying taxes a long time ago.
Governor Brown is such an embarrassment to our state of Oregon. Is she from the “twilight zone” I can only just shake my head. Born and raised in this state.
Wow, the perfect photo model for a “Karen”!
Fist in air.
Remember all the UGLY things they used to say about President TRUMP and his fist in the air?
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/trump-fist
Ugly and Kate Brown go together like lamb meat and pitas
So proud of it, she had to hide it? Speaks volumes!
The Chinese have more college students enrolled in engineering than the US has enrolled in all programs.
We are rapidly losing our ability to even teach engineering.
The Fourth Branch seriously seems to believe that software-based BigTech ia a permanent control point in the World Order. The Chinese will soon eclipse Silicon Valley and the weasel CEOs.
Illegal migration has always been about building a slave class. Government schools control the level of functional literacy.
Is this for the teachers or the students?
Because I can see a way in for more D U M B activist “teachers” who have ZERO skills themselves in these areas. Drop the requirement for the students and then the teachers you hire also do not need to be proficient in those areas.
BTW, this is why they fight so hard for a $15 minimum wage. NOT Because you earned it, but as a reward for making it through their C R A P school systems.
Welcome to your “service” job.
I wonder if they ended ongoing education expectations for teachers too.
Once these “teachers” are hired how do you get ridf of them?
The answer is, “You can’t.”
They were hired under that low expectations rule, remember, back in 2020/2021, when dictators took over every state and the country?
An admission that their union teachers are worthless.
Now written into law.
Any article discussing this should be titled “Governor declares that only white people are smart enough to learn the 3 R’s.”
Put it in proper context and let the frenzy run its course.
Oh look…another racist Democrat…
Strange that this victory for ‘equity’ was not trumpeted to the rooftops and proudly announced and supported by the administration, after all, Biden cannot make a speech without using the term. A dispassionate observer might conclude the regime is nowhere near as secure as it claims.
I grew up in Georgia. I already know what it looks like to be surrounded by dozens of illiterate minority kids. They’re half-feral and violent. They will grow up to be violent parasites. Without any pretense of education whatsoever, the little idiots will be corralled through the system without even knowing how to draw their own names with a crayon. Behold, the next generation of democrat foot soldiers.
You hit the nail on the head there, Frank. When politicians encourage the soft bigotry of low expectations from a selected subculture, you get what you asked for: a permanent subclass of welfare dependent voters, whose only contribution to society is keeping the Police and Sheriff’s department busy.
So first of all am I supposed to believe the thing pictured above is a women? Maybe that’s where she learned to lower the bar since women seemed to do it for her?
And maybe her reasons are valid I mean seriously how many 4th graders can the school system accommodate?
So Oregon is not only a Sanctuary State but an Affirmative Action State! Who knew? Why would anyone hire “Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.” ? The starting assumption would be that they are illiterate! So the Oregon schools don’t really teach they just indoctrinate! No wonder Portland is run by Antifa and BLM. That is one beautiful State to avoid!
All I can say is this. I was born and raised in Oregon, worked hard to get into the college of my choice and we never experienced anything like this person who thinks she is he Governor is.What kind of parents raise people to act and speak like her?????
No academic proficiency needed to occupy Portland.
I’ve been censored ?
Why not carry this to the truly ridiculous and absurd? They always do, so expect this in the future.
Just award a college degree to everybody when they’re born.
Imagine. Engineers who can’t do math. Lawyers who can’t read or write. Doctors who don’t know basic biology.
Wait, we already have examples of those!
How can people of color not be insulted by this? The same for women. My granddaughter claims she can do anything my grandson can but yet the military and others are lowering the requirements to allow them in. It should be a disclaimer like this that you can’t do what others have done but need to be lowered to your standards for you to achieve.
The Army started lowering standards for females in the 1970’s, when I was in. The women’s dropout rate was over 90%, even with virtually -0- physical requirements.
Don’t axed what could go wrong with this. Face palm.
Get your children out of these Government run schools. Your child would be better off being taught by the neighbors dog. Anyone can home school, you know what your child needs to know in order to survive in the world today. These Propaganda schools are filling your child’s heads full of lies teaching them to hate their own families and Country. When I home schooled there was little support, it’s way different now, many helps and resources.
I knew when people were pushing Socialism for America stated “free college” and people fell for it….well, the education would be ridiculous. Don’t fall for lies.
No other way. Even the private and Catholic schools have gone woke.
Been homeschooling 12 year old since Blackface shut down schools in March 2020.
I hope I got him in time. Been de-programming him about our form of government and our unique, great country.
He will never again walk rhrough the door of any govt or woke school.
And here we are. All this talk from the left of America’s “systemic racism” Then this fool comes out with the most systemic racist bill one could think of. She’s on the same “systemic racism ” that our inserted president is on. They keep yelling at the top of their lungs that is is the right and the institutions are all systemically racist! Yet they are the ones who are!
When is this madness going to stop? In a way they are right about the “systemic racism” because all of our institutions are controlled by the leftists! And the woke corporations are jumping on board with all their foolish doings.
It’s despicable that basic education is thrown out in favor of a trophy. She is hurting the next generation and doesn’t care. We all have to eat our spinach sometimes.
Kate Brown is completely unattractive and has been unwanted her whole life. Access to regular people resulted in her being constantly rejected and being mocked.
Her handlers know this. They know she’s a total loser made up of inferior DNA and that’s why she’s their figurehead propped up by a corrupt Oregon political machine beholden to China.
Kate will do as she’s told.
She also hates regular people because they’ve mocked her nerdy ass her whole life. Thus, she embraces a racist educational policy for Oregon to get back and seek revenge on regular people.
Kate Brown is the epitome of low standards, not Oregon kids.
Democrats hate Black people, but not many Black people seem to realize what Democrats are doing.
*Democrats encouraged Blacks to gather in large groups to protest/riot during the height of the COVID pandemic, knowing the virus was more deadly for Blacks.
*Democrats defund police in predominantly Black communities killing off more even more Black people.
*Democrat cities have mandated vaccine passports to shop, eat out and enjoy life, knowing that many in the Black community refuse the vaccine. Democrats should just put a sign outside their doors saying “No Blacks Allowed”.
*Democrats use deceased Black people for political gain and fund raising(beyond sick and shameful).
*Now Democrats are calling Black people stupid and are eliminating educational standards to dumb all children down and are basically blaming Black children for the change in policy.
Excuse me, but what does “color” have to do with it? Seems like she is 1000% racist.
So those kids will Graduate with a piece of paper this is a Diploma in name only…otherwise it is useless.
Slavemasters understood that their social control of the slaves could not be based solely on physical coercion. Knowledge was power, and virtually all slave codes established in the United States set restrictions making it illegal to teach slaves to read or write. The statute below, passed by the state of North Carolina in 1830—1831, was fairly typical.
https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/slaveprohibit.html
“Nothing ever changes” – Walter Sobchak
I fully understand now how “they” can’t obtain voter id.