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June 02, 2006
Administrators Are To Blame For Living Standards
By Martin N. Danenberg “El Quijote del GED”
Elected officials and administrators are partnering to fool the public. The public must beware of the actions of these people. In New York City students who do not graduate will receive a “competency certificate” and in Florida students who have passed the GED with 45 (now 450) on each part of the test were awarded a “high school diploma.” People in government and in administrative positions have to stop playing games with the people. After failing the state high school exams a few times, around twelve thousand students did not graduate, and African American parents in Miami protested on behalf of some of the students who were never offered appropriate professional help. Governor Jeb Bush then agreed to give those students diplomas because the system had failed them.
The New York City competency certificate, I have been told, will not be accepted for admission to college and those students are not allowed to take the GED by state law. The administrators are to fault for not knowing their GED regulations. This can be corrected quickly by bringing the GED administrators and the Department of Education administrators together to bring about the changes that are needed to protect the students who are affected. We do not want our young people to lie on their applications for the GED and they should not be forced to take the TOEFL(if the are bilingual students) test, which many people say is harder than the GED. People with diplomas from other countries are required to take the TOEFL test to show English language proficiency. We want all of our youth who wanted to attend college to go straight to college without any impediments. I am not sure how employers will feel about the competency certificates, but most will probably reject them. I want my readers to know that the Department of Education has permitted GED students to attend graduation even though they had not earned a diploma. Parents, family members, and friends have attended ceremonies where their loved ones appeared to graduate in cap and grown, but who really did not. Some of those people did not even take the GED test. The administrators permitted anyone who was scheduled to take the real test to attend graduation.
The Florida high school diploma mentioned in this article is not recognized by the Armed Forces of the United, I have been informed. Since beginning this procedure, I have helped convince the State of Florida to lower the passing mark on each part of the GED, but a state that had “raised the standards” continues to give out high school diplomas as they have lowered the standards. This proves that they were not really raising the standards. I told the people in Florida that I disagreed with what they called “raising standards” because 225 or 2250 is not, in my professional opinion, a sufficiently high mark to warrant giving a person high school diploma. I felt they were only doing that to take away the stigma of the GED.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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