NY State Cancels Regents Exams - Page 3

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

@Anonymous032819 wrote:
Never heard of "Regents".

Is it a high school exit exam?

I was in high school in the 60's. If you were college bound you took regents courses and then took state exams. I have no idea what they are like now, but the tests then were hard !

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Jaspersmom · ‎06-08-2011

@QVCkitty1 wrote:
@Jaspersmom wrote:
Grew up in NY and was a teacher for more than 34 years. The Regents exams of recent decades can't even compare to those of the 60's and 70's. If you ever get a chance, look at an example of a World History Regents of the past and compare it to a Global Regents from now. The ones from the past tested knowledge and required students to be highly skilled. Today's versions are watered down in a way to allow everyone to pass them. These changes came about when we decided everyone should go to college. Don't get me wrong, everyone should have the opportunity to go to college, but that doesn't mean everyone should go to college. If you got a Regents diploma in the past, it said something about the kind of student you were. That's not necessarily true today. In fact, the more advanced students today are all enrolled in AP classes which didn't exist in the 60's and 70's. I also want to say that many of the students from those decades who didn't get a Regents Diploma often went into the trades and MANY did very well. A few of my friends from the past started businesses (plumbing, electrician, glazier) and made more money than I ever did as a teacher.
Some of my non-regents friends ended up in community college, and did great and then transferred to a 4 year college. Some of my fellow regents grads didn't amount to much, and bombed out at college. Also in my opinion a good plumber is worth their weight in gold.

Definitely agree. I knew a whole bunch of kids who got Regents diplomas, bombed out of college and wound up getting drafted during the Vietnam War. One was my ex-husband - LOL.