Do you think its fair that we have to take the CAHSEE to graduate?

Question

I am in CA

sorry if i spelled the test wrong

Answer 1

Well, I think it is a bit unfair because students that do not go to a good school would probably fail it and not be able to graduate. HOWEVER, I have taken the cahsee and it is really easy. I almost got a perfect and most of my friends, too. The test was not hard at all. If you took the test and you didn't pass, that means that you do not even know the basics. Some people might say that it is unfair to those who go to bad schools. Well, I go to a kinda bad school but I still do well. That's is because I try hard and I take every opportunity that I get. So really, it is the test taker's fault. They didn't work as hard as they could've. SO it is fair that we have to take the cahsee since most people in high school should know that stuff anyways.

Answer 2

Well, I think that the CA High School Exit Exam would be more fair if everyone in CA had the same education. Anyone remotely familiar with the education system in CA knows that it indeed is not fair. Schools in more affluent areas receive much more funding (because they also get property tax money) than schools in poorer areas (who get paid based on the number of students present per day). How can we expect to give all students the same test who clearly receive a very different education? I feel sorry for the students in poorer areas because they attract the least-prepared teachers simply because their salary scale is lower and can't afford to pay what a more wealthy school pays. As a result, the teacher turn-over rate is very high and students have to face the consequences of having various teachers throughout the same school year. At a wealthier school they have tons of books and materials, fancy gyms, pools, fields and theater arts facilities, etc, etc while a school just down the street is struggling to hire teachers, can't afford books and has facilities that are falling apart. Anyway, it's time to get off of my soap-box, but I get so frustrated by our separate and unequal school system

Answer 3

The CAHSEE tests on 7th and 8th grade mathematics and 9th grade English. To qualify as having passed 12th grade, don't you think you should also have to meet those *much* lower requirements? I do. If you are given a diploma for 12th grade when you cannot meet requirements for grade levels as low as 7th, it utterly devalues the diploma.

Yes, I believe the CAHSEE is eminently fair.

Answer 4

yes because it's stuff you should have learned in Highschool anyway.