My own education rant ( Re: Reading, Writing, and Multiple Choice)

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...>
wrote:

> 
> ... FLORIDA, the State Gvt. is using those hugely disparate test 
> scores to FINANCIALLY (yes, actually hand out MONEY) reward the 
> schools in the state that perform the best on these tests. 
> These idiots don't seem to be able to get it through their heads 
> that SCHOOLS don't take tests, CHILDREN do. A child who has come 
> to school from a home such as what you've described in your district
> can not possibly perform at the same level on the same test given on 
> the same day as a child from a stable environment who has had a good 
> night's sleep, a good breakfast, a leisurely ride to school in Mom's 
> Navigator and who's been exposed to books and been read to 
> consistantly since babyhood. 
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Melpomene--it's not the test, it's the testers!


bboy_mn:

So let me summarize, they consistently keep giving you more money as
long as you keep proving you don't need it, and as long as you keep
proving that you do need more money/resource, they keep taking them away?

Then they raise your taxes so they can afford to continue to do the same.

Is that a fair assessment?

Again we are stuck with people/politicians who are desparately trying
to modify the symptoms so as to disguise them, because once they have
sufficiently disguised the problem and sufficiently distracted the
votes, they can comfortably go back to ignoring the problem.

...or did I misunderstand?

bboy_mn