Agreed that I'm having a hard time deciding where I am on this one. They could use the test to do that kind of thing, but not making it a requirement for graduation takes away the teeth, and I'm not sure how its going to be enforced going forward. The prop just kind of implies that the particulars would be decided after the vote, but I would feel better about it if the question of "How do we prevent harm to under privileged students who have been historically neglected" wasn't an afterthought. It feels a bit... Well... Neglectful.
GarrulousBrevity
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You can try to look for Myrtle, but you're gonna get 80 Sea Bass first
I am very curious how MA is going to deal with the disparity between school districts if this passes.
I know No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeeds get a lot of flack for requiring teachers to teach the test, which hamstrings good teachers, and that's a problem. But the problem they were trying to solve was that schools that are ill equipped to deal with ELL, disabled, or impoverished students have a history of giving those students a diploma with no education.
The tests were to give insight into when and where that was happening, and to hold anyone accountable (infamously, no child left behind would remove funding from underfunded districts for failing their students, which... Yeah, but ESSA fixed a lot of that). This prop looks like it glosses over what it's going to do about those protections, and that makes me uncomfortable with this.
I was led to believe this would be met with hostility
Who are you calling an amateur, buddy? I can argue you under the table!
It'd feel good
Yeah! This helps young people vote! This would be terrible for voter suppression!
I guess 2000 was long enough ago to forget
There's been a lot of shoddy journalism about Israel/Gaza from all narratives and I feel like this has been testing the media literacy of a lot of progressives, but uh... CNN is not a fringe source. This banning feels bad.
If the dems ever sweep the house and senate, I hope they pass legislation
I mean, it's pulling from MBFC and ground news, which are not both owned by Dave Van Zandt, and he doesn't work alone. Also, when compared to other fact checking organizations, MBFC performs well, from what I've read. Well enough that if you find their output uncomfortable, you should be second guessing yourself.
Well, Germany does have some history there