(2003-07-10) — The California State Board of Education has ruled that 92,000 high school students who failed the state’s exit exam must complete 12 more years of public schooling and retake the test in the year 2015.
Education board members said the extra dozen years of “learning” would allow the state’s new curriculum to become “further penetrated into the school system.”
“Plus, these students will be 30 by then, and probably a bit smarter than they are now,” said one unnamed board member.
If students continue to fail the exit exam in such large numbers, the state plans to make the test easier, raise teacher pay and request more funding from the federal government, since “that has always worked in the past.”

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