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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: The perils of whiteness and wealth -- "How Third World!"
In a message dated 7/18/2006 6:44:02 AM Pacific Standard Time, Csubstance@aol.com writes: ...Danny is now finishing high school. He'll enter 12th grade at Chicago's Whitney Young High School in September. At the present time, he has top grades and the highest possible scores on all standardized tests, including the six Advanced Placement exams he took during his sophomore and junior years. ... ________________________________________________________ Good for the young man. I'll leave aside the folly of building a theory of class snobbery from the remarks of eight year-olds. But who was it that said standardized tests are of no educational value, tell nothing about a child's true achievement, were being used in Chicago to destroy the public schools, and who in fact threw his career away in a madcap fight against them? Why, that was proud papa George Schmidt. Art
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