RM>MS>But the presence of state-level competency exams for graduation
  >MS>doesn't mean that a HS grad is competent in anything, so why do
  >MS>you think a national-level competency exam will?
RM>Who has a "state-level competency exam for graduation"?!?
  >Even NY, with its Regents exams, has NO exit exam for
  >competency; to which state(s) are you referring?
Texas has one and Arkansas at least locally is planning one.  The last
semester of school the Arkansas side High School has a growing
population of students who probably will not pass the exit exam in
Texas.  For that reason Arkansas has developed a similar exam to stop
the exodus of the less academic students to this side of the fence.  You
can exit without passing but you won't exit with a diploma.
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