Graduation Testing

The WASL and the High School Proficiency Exam offer nothing new to students planning to graduation. It only puts one more time you have prove you know what is taught in the class that you take as part of your curriculum. You can tell by grades if someone is good in Math, Science, or English. If someone is truly not good at one of these three subjects, their grade will show it because they do poorly on the tests in class and get a bad grade. Basically, a test required to pass graduation is unnecessary because you can tell from a students Grades and teacher comments whether they are good in a subject. It also takes away class time which is not replaced.

Though, there is one variable that could come up with making sure students have met certain guidelines. Teachers grade differently. People in different schools learn different amounts because of teaching style differences. Because of this, there needs to be some way to make sure people who go to different schools learn the same amount of information, otherwise an A in a class might be the equivalent knowledge of an F in the same class by another teacher. There needs to be a balance, and there needs to be a short standardized test in Math, English, and Science that students should take. The one provided by the state should be designed so that it can figure out how advanced students are by advancing in difficulty as a fill in the bubble test to reduce grading error. The time should take no more than 2 hours total to save learning time.