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Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« on: February 19, 2014, 12:40:19 PM »
Per the Twitters:

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Huge news 4 Bo Scarbrough's chances to qualify: He will NOT have 2 pass the AL HS exit exam as it has been waved for this yr's senior class

Seriously?!?

 :facepalm: Alabama High School Athletic Association  :facepalm: :facepalm: :fu:
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2014, 12:50:18 PM »
You know, it's one thing to have to play those guys every year, but this is ridiculous.

EVERY. SINGLE. ADVANTAGE.

Over the long haul, how on Earth can anyone compete?
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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2014, 12:59:15 PM »
So, Lord Saybinz was invited to speak to the AHSAA rules committee?
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2014, 01:01:46 PM »
Per the Twitters:

Seriously?!?

 :facepalm: Alabama High School Athletic Association  :facepalm: :facepalm: :fu:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but didn't that say that the exam is waived for the entire senior class?
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2014, 01:06:41 PM »
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but didn't that say that the exam is waived for the entire senior class?

The entire senior class of Bama signees.
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2014, 01:07:20 PM »
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but didn't that say that the exam is waived for the entire senior class?

They had to throw them in there to make it look legit.  :facepalm:
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2014, 07:08:39 PM »
Riddle me this...if the kid couldn't pass the AL HS exit exam (which, btw is at an 8th grade level) then what is the minimum score an alabama foosball player has to make on the ACT? 2? 3?
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2014, 07:39:03 PM »
Riddle me this...if the kid couldn't pass the AL HS exit exam (which, btw is at an 8th grade level) then what is the minimum score an alabama foosball player has to make on the ACT? 2? 3?

Don't you get 7 for filling your name out correctly?
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2014, 07:57:18 PM »
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but didn't that say that the exam is waived for the entire senior class?
I remember when this news broke a few months ago. The exam was deemed too difficult and was thrown into the shit can. The state BOE was looking into rewriting it to increase the dumbass kids chances of passing it.
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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2014, 09:54:01 PM »
I remember when this news broke a few months ago. The exam was deemed too difficult and was thrown into the shit can. The state BOE was looking into rewriting it to increase the dumbass kids chances of passing it.

They did away with the grad exam a few years ago.  This year's senior class was supposed to be the last class to pass it, but I guess they didn't go through with that expectation.  Probably because there were lawsuits threatened if someone's kid didn't get a diploma because they couldn't pass a test the state already admitted wasn't worthy of being used. 

They're replacing it with Common Core assessment tests that will be given at the end of each nine weeks.  I quit teaching last year, so I'm not really sure what those tests are, but if my memory serves correct, they are written by system with a state test coming at the end of each semester.  Something like that.
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2014, 08:44:59 AM »
Riddle me this...if the kid couldn't pass the AL HS exit exam (which, btw is at an 8th grade level) then what is the minimum score an alabama foosball player has to make on the ACT? 2? 3?


Cone on you're better than this.

Yes they make a 2 but claim 15.
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« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2014, 10:41:28 AM »
They did away with the grad exam a few years ago.  This year's senior class was supposed to be the last class to pass it, but I guess they didn't go through with that expectation.  Probably because there were lawsuits threatened if someone's kid didn't get a diploma because they couldn't pass a test the state already admitted wasn't worthy of being used. 

They're replacing it with Common Core assessment tests that will be given at the end of each nine weeks.  I quit teaching last year, so I'm not really sure what those tests are, but if my memory serves correct, they are written by system with a state test coming at the end of each semester.  Something like that.

I'm glad my youngest is a freshman. This new common core does not sound like teaching as much as indoctrination. There is a huge backlash and some systems have rejected it. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
I always wonder why we could send a guy to the moon with a slide rule in the 60s and can't do shit with supercomputers in the now.

Old math seemed to work just fine!
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« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2014, 10:48:50 AM »
I always wonder why we could send a guy to the moon with a slide rule in the 60s and can't do shit with supercomputers in the now.

Old math seemed to work just fine!
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« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2014, 10:49:44 AM »
I'm glad my youngest is a freshman. This new common core does not sound like teaching as much as indoctrination. There is a huge backlash and some systems have rejected it. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
I always wonder why we could send a guy to the moon with a slide rule in the 60s and can't do shoot with supercomputers in the now.

Old math seemed to work just fine!

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« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2014, 11:29:57 AM »
I'm glad my youngest is a freshman. This new common core does not sound like teaching as much as indoctrination. There is a huge backlash and some systems have rejected it. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
I always wonder why we could send a guy to the moon with a slide rule in the 60s and can't do shoot with supercomputers in the now.

Old math seemed to work just fine!

We are mired in the middle of it with our oldest in the third grade.  So far the problem hasn't been with what they are teaching (though IMO they are trying to get them to learn mathematical shortcuts before they have good grasp on the basics which is just causing the kids confusion) but with the execution.

All the tests are on computer.  Some of her grades were off from normal (she's been an A student so far, and an A+ in reading, her first three reading comprehension tests got her scores in the 60's and 70's).  We contacted the teacher asking what we could do to help, maybe if we saw her tests and what she was struggling with we could help her out at home.  We were told there was a website that we could go to to view her tests.  We went and it looked like this...

1. A Correct
2. C Incorrect
3. A Correct

No questions, no idea of what the answers were that went along with the multiple choice answers.  Took us 3 weeks of being "those parents" and getting a group of parents together in the principal's office in order to get copies of the tests so that we could see where the problems were.

And it wasn't the teacher's or even the school's fault.  There was no easy mechanism on the computer system for parents to be able to see the tests and answers.  It appeared to me to be set up that way on purpose.
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Re: Bammer Recruit DOES NOT have to pass HS Grad Exam
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2014, 11:41:46 AM »

I always wonder why we could send a guy to the moon with a slide rule in the 60s and can't do shit with supercomputers in the now.

Old math seemed to work just fine!
Nevermind all the ships that blew up or the astronauts that died.
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« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2014, 11:47:22 AM »
Nevermind all the ships that blew up or the astronauts that died.

Less died back in the early days than in the 80's on.

If you don't know shit about math, hang your head.

But he bottom line is that we had more people in this country who could solve a problem than we have today. So you can teach for test grades all you want, but the old way created more thinkers and solvers.

The new way created more robots.
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« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2014, 11:48:11 AM »
:facepalm:

This from the guy that gets laughed at every time numbers are introduced into a thread....
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« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2014, 11:50:22 AM »
This from the guy that gets laughed at every time numbers are introduced into a thread....

It's not every time.  Only 86% or 5/7th's of the time.
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« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2014, 12:00:10 PM »
Less died back in the early days than in the 80's on.
Care to wager on that... I'm talking testing as well.

I agree about the tests with you, I just don't agree that sliderules are better than supercomputers.
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