A state legislator who wants graduation projects to be optional has not been swayed by the State Board of Education's decision to delay the diploma requirement for one year.
Rep. Jimmy Love Sr. said he agreed to pull his bill from an earlier committee agenda after talking to schools CEO William Harrision, reports Lynn Bonner.
But Love, a Sanford Democrat, said Friday he doesn't see a reason to abandon the bill, because he doesn't want the state to require the projects.
The state school board voted Thursday to put off until 2011 the requirement for students to complete graduation projects to get high school diplomas.
Love said he hadn't heard that the education department was going to address his concerns that the requirement was an unfunded mandate and that it would drive up drop out rates.
Love said his idea has good support in both the House and the Senate.
Sen. David Hoyle, a Gaston County Democrat, has his own bill removing the project as a graduation requirement.
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Re: No Love for requirement
Pitt County Schools has had the senior project as a graduation requirement for at least 8 years. Two of my three children graduated with this added requirement. It is a total ABJECT WASTE of time. The better part of an entire block in English is spent on this instead of real learning and the students game it every which way they can. Some use a project completed for a different class--History Day competition or Science Fair competition, etc. sometimes from a previous year--some do pitiful minimal projects and others simply fake it. Only the administrators who spend their days writing memos like senior projects. I was asked a couple of times to sit on boards to judge projects and I refused to give my imprimatur to this bogus BS. The students need to focus on writing skills not gaming the system.