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Welcome back to State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection off the day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.

Where are all these leftist revolutionaries coming from?

Simple enough question, and there’s a simple enough answer.

HOW TO CREATE DUMB REVOLUTIONARIES

New York State is getting rid of the Regents exams for its public school systems in the 27/28 school year. For those not following along, the Regents exams are intended to show baseline competence in core subjects. In competitive academics, they’re a non-entity, easily passed, and go entirely unreferenced when preference is for SATs, ACTs and so on.

But wait, it gets stupider.

Rather than pass the Regents exams to graduate:

The state is........

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