The push to make New York high school diplomas completely meaningless
让纽约高中文凭变得毫无意义的努力
High school diplomas all across New York state will soon be meaningless if the Board of Regents gets away with scrapping a requirement for students that dates back more than 150 years: passing several Regents exams.
如果当政委员会取消了高中毕业考试——已实施了150多年的要求，那么纽约州所有的高中文凭将很快变得毫无意义。
Officially, the board is simply putting a blue-ribbon commission in charge of exploring alternatives to a state-certified diploma, en route to implementing new graduation standards in fall 2020.
按照官方的说法，该委员会只是成立了一个蓝丝带委员会，负责探索国家认证文凭的替代品，并在2020年秋季实施新的毕业标准。
Yet the Regents’ professed goal gives it all away: They’re out to goose graduation rates — and the easiest, fastest way to do that is to simply make it easier to graduate.
然而，当政者们公开宣称的目标暴露了一切:他们想要提高毕业率——而最简单、最快的方法就是让毕业变得更容易。
Their spokesfolks are dressing it up in noise about “providing different avenues — equally rigorous — for kids to demonstrate they are ready to graduate with a meaningful diploma.” It still comes down to not requiring students to pass objective tests so you can hand diplomas to kids who can’t pass.
他们的代言人正在为“为孩子们提供不同的途径——同样严格——来证明他们已经准备好毕业并获得一个有意义的文凭。”这仍然归结于不要求学生通过客观测试，这样你就可以把文凭发给那些不能通过的孩子。
Yes, the statewide graduation rate should be higher than last year’s 80.4%. As state Chancellor Betty Rosa wrote in February, “The system is not working for everyone and too many students — particularly our most vulnerable students — are leaving high school without a diploma.”
是的，全州的毕业率应该高于去年的80.4%。正如该州州长贝蒂•罗莎(Betty Rosa)今年2月所写的那样，“这个体系并不适用于所有人，太多的学生——尤其是我们最弱势的学生——没有毕业就离开了高中。”
But killing a key requirement for graduation doesn’t do a thing to stop the system from fAIling those kids — it just makes the failure less obvious.
但是，为了毕业而取消一个关键的要求，并不能阻止这个让这些孩子失败的系统——它只是让失败变得不那么明显。
And that, clearly, is all the current Regents and their political masters really care about.
显然，这是所有现任当政者和他们的政治主人真正关心的。
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