Readers respond: Don’t lower Oregon high school standards

Relating to the latest proposal to loosen educational necessities for highschool commencement statewide (“Oregon ought to make highschool diplomas simpler to earn, require a monetary literacy course, training division says,” Sept. 2) I remembered an article from a number of years in the past by the identical reporter. A easy search recovered this headline from 2015: “75% of Oregon highschool grads who go straight to group school should take remedial lessons.”

So, we weren’t getting ready college students for group school then, and now we wish to ship youngsters off to increased training with even fewer abilities. What a horrible concept.

Simply because different states have eased their necessities doesn’t imply we’ve to. Can’t we attempt to the next commonplace? Wouldn’t or not it’s nice to have the very best public colleges within the nation, graduating younger adults who can comprehend what they learn and specific what they know in full sentences – each out loud and on paper – properly sufficient to fulfill the challenges of group school?

Sure. It could be nice, however we aren’t going to try this. As a result of some college students can’t meet these requirements, we gained’t require any pupil to fulfill these requirements. When college students make the leap to increased training, at the least 75% of them will discover themselves undereducated and unprepared. I hope I’m not the one reader who’s horrified.

Nancy Leon, Portland