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Originally posted by Taualumna
But it's also the kids' fault, since they aren't reading and writing well. I'm not sure how kids are taught today at my high school, but I know that they all passed the test.
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This isn't simply a highschool problem. It's just that they only give this test to grade 10's.
The things that are on this test should have been taught in earlier grades. They should be giving standardizeds in earlier grades to actually cathc the problem and try to fix rather then going, oh well if you don't pass this test you don't graduate but we really don't care if you can't read or right.
Granted the kids have to do the work too, if they aren't willing to work then that's there problem. But it's mostl;y because kids aren't being taught the material.
My brother took the test and while he passed I can guarantee that many kids in my old highschool (I graduated before they implemented this) failed. And my highschool is at the top of the University tracking list. Kids that graudate from my highschool have a better shot at entering university with lower marks than a kid from a lower ranked highschool with higher marks.