EDITORIAL FAILING KIDS RULING ON EXAMS DOES NOTHING FOR CALIFORNIA'S STUDENTS.IT'S a sad day when a student's hopes for graduating from high school rest not on hard work or learning, but on a judge's fiat [Latin, Let it be done.] In old English practice, a short order or warrant of a judge or magistrate directing some act to be done; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. . Yet thanks to Superior Court Judge Robert Freedman freed·man n. A man who has been freed from slavery. freedman Noun pl -men History a man freed from slavery Noun 1. , as many as 47,000 high-school seniors in California will soon get a diploma DIPLOMA. An instrument of writing, executed by, a corporation or society, certifying that a certain person therein named is entitled to a certain distinction therein mentioned. 2. , even though they haven't been able to master 10th-grade English or ninth-grade math. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Freedman, requiring kids to pass the High School Exit Exam before collecting a diploma would do them harm, as it could keep them from attending colleges to which they may have already been accepted. But it's far more harmful to let kids move on to do work for which they're unprepared. And it's unfair to tell students who have worked hard to pass the exam that their efforts were for nothing. It's true -- and a travesty -- that not all California students are educated equally, or even minimally. But it's hard to see how this injustice Injustice American concentration camps 110,000 Japanese-Americans incarcerated during WWII. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 487] Bassianus murdered after being falsely accused. [Br. Lit. is resolved by simply letting them pass through the system uneducated. What failing students need is remediation, not worthless diplomas. |
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