The end of Regents exams: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: The State Board of Regents’ resolution to end the examination requirement for a high college diploma.
The New York Board of Regents has decided that passing the Regents will no longer be required to earn a high college diploma (“Ending required Regents,” Sept. 15).
This is a retrograde step. The exams will not be a excellent predictor of later efficiency, however at the least they have been an goal measure of achievement. They demanded great accountability from lecturers and fostered a modicum of tutorial respect for the diploma.
Now that the essential safeguard has been eliminated, anticipate commencement charges to increase whereas actual studying decreases.
Frank Brady
Yonkers
The high quality of New York’s training system has been on a long downward spiral. Years in the past, the CUNY system eradicated academic requirements with its open admissions coverage, which proved to be a catastrophe and that finally was deserted.
Now, after permitting Regents requirements to be watered down, the Board of Regents has determined to stop requiring the checks.
This is a fool-hearted resolution supported by ultra-liberal educators who don’t wish to overwork or educate our youngsters.
Harold Fishman
Manhattan
The previous adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” appears to have eluded the New York Board of Regents.
Over the years, the exams have been a problem for college kids, however receiving a diploma gave them a sense of delight.
In at this time’s fast-paced, technological world, educators need various strategies to reveal college students to real-world calls for. The proposed hands-on studying framework ought to be mixed with Regents testing, within the hope of producing better-prepared college students.
Michael Headley
Brooklyn
Way to go, State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa. Keep dumbing down America’s future generations.
This decline retains progressing as we watch. Diplomas are already about as helpful as toilet paper and Regents necessities are a wash.
We anticipate college students to know fundamentals in grade college. If you give a diploma at commencement, at the least have them perceive who the primary president of our nation was.
Kevin Judge
Naples, Fla.
The Board of Regents is admitting they’ve carried out the whole lot potential to raise studying scores and have failed.
Now the Department of Education will grow to be a diploma mill, producing ineffective graduates who won’t be able to carry jobs. A vicious cycle that produces more government-dependent “graduates.”
Michael Castagna
Brooklyn
The Issue: Mayor Mamdani cultivating extremist social-media influencers to push his political insurance policies.
Mayor Mamdani’s effort to recruit social-media influencers jogs my memory of Joseph Stalin utilizing the media as an organ of the state (“Mam’s slimy secret signal squad,” Adam Lehodey, Sept. 15).
The hazard of an administration having a personal military of fawning influencers is that it will probably push messages to change information and historical past.
New York City beneath the present administration is like a frog being boiled alive. We’re the frog within the pot and the administration’s military of influencers is telling us to embrace the comforting heat of the water.
Jack Chen
Flushing
These lunatic Mamdani influencers don’t belong anyplace close to public workplace issuing statements about our nation.
If they hate America a lot, why are they nonetheless dwelling right here? There are ships and planes leaving just about each minute to locations they’d be a lot happier, like China or Russia.
I pray all of them go away quickly and chip in to buy a ticket for his or her commie-loving mayor.
Bill Lewis
Danbury, Conn.
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