I have read the editorial opposing the new SBHSD certificate of
completion and several letters opposing the new policy.
Editor,
I have read the editorial opposing the new SBHSD certificate of completion and several letters opposing the new policy. All of these classified all of the students who fail to pass the CAHSEE as either lazy or unmotivated. This is the problem with utilizing a single test to evaluate the entire educational career of a student.
Why isn’t this also used as a way of measuring the education that was delivered to these students? It has always amazed me that this institution that is built on grading others’ performance refuses to allow itself to be subjected to a similar grading system. Once again, all negative consequences fall on the students shoulders while the institution only claims responsibility for success.
Are all students in the state provided with the same opportunity to succeed? Just in our little district there is a 30 percent difference in the pass rate on both the English language arts and math portions of the test between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic students. Is the editor of this paper and those who have agreed with him telling the community that all Hispanics are lazy and unmotivated? I hope not. Or is there really some difference in services provided?
Also, since the standards for graduation have not been lowered are you also saying that each and every diploma given out for the previous 110 years should be questioned since those students were not held to the same standard of having to pass the CAHSEE?
Raymond Rodriguez, Hollister
