July 29, 2009

In today's Morning Call, columnist Paul Carpente writes that Keystone Exams would bring the same standards into use statewide - and his distrust of local standards.  He writes:

The Bethlehem Area School District, for example, has had only one firm requirement for high school graduation -- participation in its orgy of political correctness, the Mandatory Volunteer Program. The BASD gave diplomas to functional illiterates as long as they ''volunteered'' to provide free labor for designated causes.

In Allentown, all the eggs were placed in a ''self esteem'' basket and the school district was paying 18 football coaches at a time it refused to buy a single library book....The new Keystone Exams and the related options are a step in the right direction.