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Oregon Students Can Now Graduate WITHOUT Being Able To READ | Ep.35
On this week’s episode of the Campus Countdown, Campus Reform video reporter Addison Smith discusses the declining academic standards in Oregon’s lower education system. This year, Oregon high school seniors, in accordance with a bill signed by Gov. Kate Brown that suspends academic requirements for graduation, will be able to graduate without the ability to read or do math.
Smith criticized this decision, insisting that the school system has “abdicated its entire purpose, is an understatement.”
“A baseline -- bare minimum requirement [taxpayers] should expect from funneling money into this system is that the kids would come out with basic competency, basic fundamentals of education… Even that now, is too high a bar. To say that the public school system has abdicated its entire purpose, is an understatement,” Smith said.
“[The education system is]setting students up for failure. The education system has decided that any challenge at all, any expectation at all, is too burdensome; too challenging.”
Also in the Campus Countdown, Campus Reform correspondent Hannah Langdon joins to discuss Montclair University’s pressured decision to disband their “Bias Education Response Taskforce” in a settlement against a lawsuit filed by Alliance Defending Freedom. Also, Smith talks about Bard College’s recent “Independent journey with anti-racism” requirement for employment, and in the woke tweet of the week, mocks former York University history professor for insisting that the “the unvaccinated” should be reduced to “total misery… break their spirit… to force compliance and so that they learn not to resist government mandates.
Watch the full episode above.
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