2006 Senate Bill 1124 (Mandate high school graduation requirements ) (Senate Roll Call 152)
Passed in the Senate (35 to 0) on March 16, 2006, to prescribe high school graduation requirements for public schools and charter schools. These would include four credits (or year-long courses) each in English and mathematics (including Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry); three each in science and social science (including biology and chemistry or physics); two in a foreign language (beginning with students entering ninth grade in 2009); one in health and physical education; one in fine arts or music; and at least one in certain electives specified in the bill. Also, one course or "learning experience" that was presented online. Alternatively, an 11th grade student who has completed two-and-one-half years of this curriculum could request a custom "individualized learning plan" instead of completing the math and science credits. Students could "test out" of certain requirements (for example, a bi-lingual student). Middle school students could take some mandated classes to get a "head start" on the requirements. Schools would be required to have these standards in place beginning with students who graduate in enter ninth grade beginning in 2007, or to have a timetable in place for adopting them. [History, Amendments & Comments]
The vote was 35 in favor, 0 opposed, and 2 not voting
(Senate Roll Call 152 at Senate Journal 27)
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The following legislators supported 2006 Senate Bill 1124 (Mandate high school graduation requirements ):
The following legislators opposed 2006 Senate Bill 1124 (Mandate high school graduation requirements ):
The following legislators did not vote on 2006 Senate Bill 1124 (Mandate high school graduation requirements ):
| Garcia (R) | Leland (D) |
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1) Re: This Is An Improvement [by admin111 on February 2, 2009]
I am a actual student that has to graduate with these requirements. I have no clue what the state was thinking when they passed this law. I HATE MATH! I do well in all my other classes except math. I fear that I won't beable to graduate with my class because of them. I passed algebra 1 with a D-. I'm in geometry now and i'm failing it. Most of my class is failing it. (No joke)I guess it would really help if we actually spent more time on the sections. We are going through 1 section a day. We arn't learning crap from it...you can't learn something in one day and be expected to remember how to do it for a long time. That is like learning a new name everyday for 2-4 weeks and be expected to remember all the names that you learn. It would really be nice if we got to choose if we wanted to take math because i'm never going to use this crap. I want to be a police officer...not a rocket scientist. It's not like if I have to shoot someone i'm going to go, "Ok now, I have to hold my gun 90 degrees to the North and and 40 degrees south." Sure, I understand there are some Algebra formulas that I have to use. All the state is doing is hurting kids. The state of Michigan had one of the worst graduation rates with the old requirements. All I can say is that my class is the ginni pig class and when the state relizes that these requirements arn't going to work that my class is going to be screwed. well, most of the people that hate math and isn't good at it. I know the govener is trying to make it easier to pass with the new 4th year classes that I can take after I pass algebra 1, geometry, and algebra 2...but I have to be able to pass all the other math classes before I can take the ones that I will actually use in my life.
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I know that dropped out of high school are now running small businesses and doing quite well. I think that the longer you stay in the state indoctrination camps the dumber you become. The biggest reason for government schools is to create the next group of folks that are dumb enough to vote for the dems/socialists. If they get their way they will rip your child away at 2 or 3 years old to get a head start on the brainwashing, seems that some parents actually are trying to teach their children some common sense and we can't have that in the coming socialist states of amerika.
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There are choices that we made as teenagers, And no one person, school or law maker had anything to do with it. There are alot of jobs that require no math, Its called a calculator and computer, Family Farms, Business that are run by family,,,Child Care...ect... Half the things that are mandated, are not used in everyday life. You are not to judge the way there life turns out. Life is 90% how you take it and 10% how you make it.... Everyone is unhappy at some point in their life. If you can breathe, you can live. the only thing that should be mandated is sex education, health, Basic math, reading, writing, Gym class, cooking. The rest is not always remembered or used in life.
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