As a teacher of English 12—the only course required for graduation during senior year—I am something of a gatekeeper: any student who fails my class will not walk on graduation day and will have to repeat the course over the summer or during the following academic year.
Although I have this mighty gatekeeper status, there are still students who escape my clutches—those who should not receive a high school diploma, yet do.
I humbly propose that each teacher be given a veto stamp that will deny a student his diploma. First off, stamps are oh-so satisfying...Stamp! You FAIL!
Secondly, there are some students who can barely read or write, yet somehow are passed through the system until they are out of it...and we as a society are inundated with droves of imbeciles who cannot think for themselves. This is clearly a detriment to society.
For example, I have for you the response to a one-question reading quiz on Lord of the Flies. This response was written by a graduating senior:
The Boat was the Island we on fire.
Really, you don't even need to know what the question was because this response doesn't make a lick of sense. A student with such limited mental and written ability should not be allowed to graduate from high school; in fact, it's student like this who have helped devalue the high school diploma.
Veto.
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