Public schools are failing.
Chicken
Little rides again.
Schools are terrible. We must do something.
Mmm, hmm. How
do you know?
Everyone knows. Kids leave school and are
unable to find a job.
How do you
know?
Everyone knows. Inner city schools are the
worst.
How do you
know?
The data shows it! (Hot damn, slam down,
public school advocates can’t argue with data.)
Let’s talk
about data. Where does it come from?
We get it from the states. They do annual
testing, as required by federal law, and the results clearly show our schools
are failing.
Now we’re
getting to it.
How can you argue with data?
Lies, damn
lies, and statistics. Wish I had said that, but Mark Twain beat me to it.
But I’ve got data, based upon the latest,
greatest testing.
Yes, you do.
Data generated by a test so bad that all a student has to do is answer 28% of
the questions correct and you say that’s a pass. Data generated by a test that
is so bad that you have to norm the results. For folks who don’t know the
lingo, that means that states curve the results.
Shut your mouth.
A test so
bad … but what you do is worse. You set the pass rates at predetermined levels.
You have data that was designed to be what you wanted it to be. Rather than
give a fair test, you decided that a certain percentage of students will pass
and the rest fail, no matter how they actually perform. To cover your tracks,
you make the test incredibly difficult so no student can pass. Even the student
with an IQ of 225 and should be several grade levels ahead cannot score above
the traditional 70%--C level.
Shut your mouth.
In your
dreams. I know more, so much more, and I am going to expose you—because I’ve
studied the data and I know what it really means.
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