NY lowers math and reading standards helping to make illiteracy the new normal

If you want to make the crime stats reflect a reduction in crime, the easiest way to do that is to decriminalize crime, at least the kinds of crime you can get away with saying is not a felony, but merely a misdemeanor. If you want to make it seem as if teachers are doing their job of teaching math and reading skills, just lower the bar and everybody passes.

Basically, it's the New York state of mind to think that their failing schools will look as if the children are being educated once proficiency is measured by showing some effort rather than ability. 

The state has decided to permanently lower the math and reading proficiency standards because there has been a dramatic fall in test scores since the COVID lockdowns as a result from the needless and useless way the school system in the state handled the situation. 

So the state tried a tactic designed to assuage the concerns of honest educators. A committee has reported that student performance has been permanently damaged and that lower competence has become “the new normal.” Instead of trying to improve on the losses incurred by the lockdowns, the so called educators just lowered the standards.

New York will make it easier for students to reach “proficiency” on state math and English language arts tests, calling last year’s lower scores the “new normal.”

Imagine if the state lowered the standard requirements of the motor vehicle driving test scores. If you can start the car and remember to check your mirrors before pulling out, you pass. Then why not get rid of speed limits too?

A scoring committee that reports to the Board of Regents said Monday that they must take into account the results of last year’s tests for students in grades three through eight. Some schools posted shocking results — in Schenectady, no eighth grader who took the math test scored as proficient. And the scores for the third through eighth grade tests throughout the state were much lower in 2022 than in 2019, a result no doubt of the absence of in-person learning during the first year and beyond of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rather than trying to get their scores higher, just lower the passing grade to 'mildly retarded.' This is not doing the children any favors, although I'm sure they would disagree.

First the kids were betrayed by the pandemic, now they're betrayed by the state's refusal to help them regain the education they lost.

But that's okay--with the gay porn books found in many school libraries, they don't need to know how to read at a higher level. 

It's cultural Marxism at its finest.

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