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WOR Street Reporter Natalie Migliore Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Natalie, up from the streets in the suites. Say
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  Speaker 2: it ain't so. No more New York State regent requirements
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  Speaker 2: for graduation. Is that true, Natalie?
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  Speaker 3: That is true. Did you take the regents exams?
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  Speaker 2: No, I would have gotten the credit just for going
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  Speaker 2: to Brooklyn Prep, but they kicked me out. I never finished.
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  Speaker 4: I did.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think any if you stop any New
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  Speaker 3: Yorker who grew up in the early 90s and 2000s,
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  Speaker 3: If they remember the Regents exams, because that's when they
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  Speaker 3: started in the early 1990s, was when they started making it,
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  Speaker 3: you had to pass them in order to get your diploma. Oh, really?
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  Speaker 4: So I did it voluntarily?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you have to take it anyway, because now they're
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  Speaker 3: going to use it as a benchmark for how you're performing.
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  Speaker 3: That's at least what I, in my search.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Google is wrong.
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  Speaker 4: I just knew I was like, I have a Regents diploma.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We all did.
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  Speaker 1: Baby, we all did if you graduated from New York
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  Speaker 1: high schools. Now, New York State is making sort of
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  Speaker 1: a— they' re backing out of this and removing Regents exams as
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  Speaker 1: a requirement to graduate. So what do people, especially those
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  Speaker 1: like us, Natalie, okay, who had to take these exams,
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  Speaker 1: think about that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to lie.
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  Speaker 5: All my classmates, we— Hated taking it. So I guess
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  Speaker 5: it's kind of nice.
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  Speaker 4: That means about assess because none of the colleges I
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  Speaker 4: applied to cared if I took the reuse or not,
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  Speaker 4: especially not if you're born in a school that's not
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  Speaker 4: in year.
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  Speaker 6: It's not fair because, yeah, we had it rough.
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  Speaker 5: 2010s and that.
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  Speaker 6: Regents was that benchmark.
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  Speaker 5: So I wonder what are they going to do for year?
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, I think that's an interesting call to pay,
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  Speaker 6: to say the least. Oh, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, do they have anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Like that's going to take its place? Well, I'm so
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  Speaker 3: glad you asked. You're still going to have to take
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  Speaker 3: the Regents, but it's one of the ways students can show,
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  Speaker 3: this is what the Regents board says, that they're academically proficient.
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  Speaker 3: So it's sort of this benchmark. Of course, there's the
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  Speaker 3: SATs and the ACTs that sort of went away for
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. The requirements schools started or colleges started
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  Speaker 3: saying you don't necessarily need them to get in. That's
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  Speaker 3: sort of that's become more of a reversal as well
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  Speaker 3: for people or for institutions. They want you to take
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  Speaker 3: them and submit those scores. Now, grown adults putting themselves
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  Speaker 3: in kids shoes, which I actually probably wear the same
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  Speaker 3: size as a child anyway. How are they going to
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  Speaker 3: take something serious if it doesn't really count?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's other tests to take other than the Regency exam.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that it's.
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  Speaker 6: Not really a question of whether or not we should
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  Speaker 6: have tests at all.
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  Speaker 5: But I feel like there's also other ways to have
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  Speaker 5: a measurement to see if the student is prepared. People
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  Speaker 5: are not going to take gas seriously.
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  Speaker 6: When it was mandatory, it actually gave students the incentive.
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  Speaker 2: To do better.
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  Speaker 6: I think so, because I think with the exam, it
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  Speaker 6: gave people something to motivate them throughout the year. Because
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  Speaker 6: at the end of the year, you wanted to make
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  Speaker 6: sure that you was on your P's and Q's with that.
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  Speaker 6: There we go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, bad news for anyone graduating this year.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: This is making total sense to me now, because it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't mandatory when I had it, but... If you had
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  Speaker 4: a regents diploma, it was like, oh, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: could put that on your resume and that was a
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  Speaker 4: big thing. So why couldn't that be again? I remember
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  Speaker 4: striving to get a regents diploma.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: See, we obviously needed it to the point where I
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  Speaker 3: didn't even put it on my resume that I had
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  Speaker 3: a regents diploma because if you graduated from New York schools.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go a little old school on you. You
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  Speaker 2: were academic diploma. They call that an academic plan. Then
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  Speaker 2: you had vocational high school diploma, no regents diploma. Then
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  Speaker 2: you had the general diploma, which was you inhaled and exhaled,
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  Speaker 2: and they pushed you through through social promotion. They called
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  Speaker 2: it a general diploma. They eliminated that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I wonder why. It could be going back. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they could be sort of start changing the structure now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there is now when you say you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to have your regents diploma, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you have to make it mean something. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if it's a special thing to have, that's great. And
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  Speaker 4: now I'm really thinking about it. And this was back,
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  Speaker 4: you know, early 90s, late 80s. I think if you
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  Speaker 4: had a regent diploma, you also got a small scholarship
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  Speaker 4: if you were going to a.
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  Speaker 3: New York State school.
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  Speaker 4: So it was, you know, it was an incentive.
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  Speaker 3: I got to talk to them about that now.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't get anything.
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  Speaker 3: But look, bad news for anyone graduating this year because
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  Speaker 3: you're still going to be like me and Natalie or Natalie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: me and Natalie.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Grammar, right?
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  Speaker 5: That's correct. I did take the Regents.
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  Speaker 3: I should know this.
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  Speaker 2: You failed that part.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 3: They're still going to have to take this test and
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  Speaker 3: pass it to get their high school diploma. I had
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  Speaker 3: to have people start racking their brains, but How do
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  Speaker 3: they feel like teachers actually started teaching to the test?
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  Speaker 6: Definitely, yeah, because I know that, you know, tests have
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  Speaker 6: something to do with state funding and other things like that,
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  Speaker 6: like for teachers.
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  Speaker 5: I do feel like that, like if tests were more
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  Speaker 5: focused on allowing kids to think outside the box, it
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  Speaker 5: would benefit more. And teachers now kind of feel like
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  Speaker 5: it is more of a vegetation than making sure that
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  Speaker 5: you can apply the knowledge that you gain into like
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  Speaker 5: organized scenarios or to solve some questions.
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe teachers will get a little bit more creative
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  Speaker 3: with how they teach now if they don't have to
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  Speaker 3: teach to the Regents. But only time will tell. It's
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  Speaker 3: the first week of school and this starts next school year.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: Natalie Migliore will be back tomorrow at 7.50 with her
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  Speaker 4: beat on the street.
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  Speaker 5: She just did a victory dance.
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  Speaker 2: It's like she's in the end zone.
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  Speaker 3: I passed my Regents!
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  Speaker 2: I got a 99 on one.