{"id":1014,"date":"2006-05-10T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2006-05-10T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T18:16:00","slug":"how-do-you-define-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/how-do-you-define-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you define graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfunnel.blogspot.com\">Eric&#8217;s<\/A> working on a story for the paper that&#8217;s quite interesting on both sides.<br \/>\nAccording to Texas law, students must pass the TAKS test before they can graduate\/get a diploma from high school.<br \/>\nTwenty-one students in Waxahachie did not pass the TAKS test. They met all the other requirements for graduation, grades, attendance and so forth, but they didn&#8217;t pass the test.<br \/>\nFrom my understanding, the school principal is not allowing students who failed the TAKS test to walk at graduation.<br \/>\nParents of course are upset and are saying their kids have met all the other requirements and should be allowed to walk.<br \/>\nSome are claiming it&#8217;s a racial issue (which simply turns me off).<br \/>\nThe school says the students were told at the beginning of the year that passing the test would be a requirement for graduation.<br \/>\nLast year students were allowed to walk and simply given a certificate of completion. Another test was given during the summer to allow them to get their diploma but only a very small number came back to take the test.<br \/>\nShould students be allowed to walk simply because they met three of the four requirements for graduation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric&#8217;s working on a story for the paper that&#8217;s quite interesting on both sides. According to Texas law, students must pass the TAKS test before they can graduate\/get a diploma from high school. Twenty-one students in Waxahachie did not pass the TAKS test. They met all the other requirements for graduation, grades, attendance and so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/how-do-you-define-graduation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How do you define graduation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}