Re: In Defense of Testing

["Allen Flanigan." <Allen.Flanigan@USPTO.GOV>]

By the way, for those who can't differentiate sarcasm from affectionate
teasing, my "misty-eyed stories" comment was meant to fall squarely in the
latter category.


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> Subject:      Re: In Defense of Testing
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> In a message dated 2/15/01 8:36:18 AM, Allen.Flanigan@USPTO.GOV writes:
>
> << A while back George S. and other teachers on the list were trading
>
> misty-eyed stories about former students who come back to say thanks to a
>
> memorable teacher and to share their success stories.  >>
>
> They're still coming, too.
>
> We're working on getting some of them to begin writing for Substance (as
> some
> have in the past, by the way).
>
> Just as the true test of a parent's "work" is how the children turn out in
> the course of a full life (and a parent's love is measured against the
> worst
> the child can try...), so a teacher can't be measured by the quarterly
> earnings same-store report like we were turning over inventories of Bounce
> and Viva paper towels like a school was some Target store and the kids
> were
> just waiting to be stacked and sorted on rigle-angled shelves.
>
> Right now, Chicago's purges and early retirements have reduced the number
> of
> active duty teachers on the Substance staff to seven. That's still more
> than
> in all the governor's mansions and Achieve, Inc. offices from Honolulu to
> Bangor. No single yardstick is going to measure the personal adequacy of
> my
> child, just as that yardstick these guys carry into the shower with them
> doesn't measure anything about the satisfaction they achieve in love.
>
> George Schmidt
>
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