Published 13 August 2021 at 10.42
Abroad. Oregon's governor has signed a new bill that removes the requirement to be able to read, write and count for high school diplomas. The purpose of the anti-racist law is to help “colored students”, reports RT.
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Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed the new law last month, which completely eliminates the requirement for knowledge in reading, writing and math to be able to get a high school diploma.
This happened on July 14, under great secrecy, according to the Oregonian newspaper. No press release was released and the decision was not recorded in the official database.
Brown himself is silent on the law, but the governor's deputy communications director, Charles Boyle, tells the Oregonian that the abolished requirements will help “colored students” while the state takes a new set of “fairer” rules for examination.
Until then, the abolished requirements will help “blacks, Hispanics, indigenous peoples, Asians” and other non-whites.
– The leaders of these groups have repeatedly advocated the introduction of fair degree rules, says Boyle according to RT.
If the new degree requirements are approved, they will reportedly not enter into force until 2027, which means that five graduating classes can obtaining degrees without having to demonstrate knowledge in three very basic areas of knowledge.
The Republicans in Oregon tried to strike back at the bill, which they claimed would “lower the expectations of our children.” They did not succeed, however, because the democratically controlled assembly was overwhelmingly behind the law change.
Florida Republican congressional candidate Vic DeGrammont calls the bill completely “insane.”
Politician and opinion leader Barrington Martin II – who has been a candidate for the Democratic Party in several elections in the state of Georgia – believes that while the law aims to give “struggling ethnic minorities a chance”, but that the result will be the opposite: “The road to hell is really lined with good intentions, “he says.