Re: Mindless Testocracy Strikes Again

["Peter Majoy" <pwmjoy@earthlink.net>]

Yaha....the first two words and syllables for a classic 5-7-5 haiku....here
goes Artie....

                                                            Get help he says
now
                                                            While sitting
there on his brain
                                                            Testman quite
insane.......
-----Original Message-----
From: ABurke5054@aol.com <ABurke5054@aol.com>
To: arn-l@interversity.org <arn-l@interversity.org>
Date: Saturday, February 07, 2004 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [arn-l] Mindless Testocracy Strikes Again


>Get help.
>
>In a message dated 2/7/2004 4:13:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>pwmjoy@earthlink.net writes:
>Hey, Art, since I am relatively new to this list, and since I too have been
>at the receiving end of your silly willies, just so I am not mistaking you
>for someone else, is "Accountability and Research" your bag of tricks, or
is
>that some other Art Burke. Peter P.S. Your remark below is your
>stock-in-trade irony given the obsession you seem to have with controlling
>teachers and students with tests. I await your sarcasm. But, more than that
>ping-ponging of inanities, I await more cerebral stuff. Maybe I missed it
>given the short time I've been logging on my
>own fun stuff. What I am most interested in is how someone such as yourself
>can be so committed to your point of view. Is there some philosophical
>underpinning to your support of what is termed here the "mindless
>testocracy". Let my question be a test for you and more than that, see if
>you can answer it straight-on minus the arrogant nit-picking and the "god,
>there goes Art again down that old alley drunk with snotty, teeny-weeny,
>quicky spitty nothing butty barbs." Choose (a) :-) or Choose (b) :-(  or
>_______.
>