Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 1 No. 509 Messages: 20

[Cathy Marciniak <cathmarc@sbcglobal.net>]

 Well, I don't know about y'all, but I for one, am appalled by this blatant
disregard for authority.

Really, how dare colleges and universities set their own standards for
admission?  The whole idea of the MCAS was to ensure that all high school
graduates are prepared for college; how dare some students demonstrate their
college readiness without it?  How dare these young people be successful
without the state seal of approval; who do they think they are, anyway?
Citizens?
 
Bless their subversive, determined, stubborn little hearts.  Bless ?em good.
 

Cathy
cathmarc@sbcglobal.net





> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:34:25 -0500
> From: "Susan Allison" <sueallison@comcast.net>
> To: <arn-l@interversity.org>
> Subject: Re: Private School Circumvents State Graduation Test
> Message-ID: <005e01c3ff89$88f50fb0$6400a8c0@Sue>
> 
> This story about the Maine school issuing diplomas to FCAT victims reminded
> me of another story from Massachusetts...
> 
> "Several New England colleges and universities that require high school
> diplomas for admission say they may accept students who fail MCAS but
> receive ''local diplomas'' that state education officials have declared
> illegal.
> 
> The prospect that some four-year colleges may consider a non-MCAS diploma to
> be as good as one with MCAS credentials could undermine a central tenet of
> education reform.
> 
> 'They are doing a disservice to the goals of education reform and to the
> principles many of them claim to hold dear,' said James A. Peyser, chairman
> of the state Board of Education, adding that he doubts the move would have
> broad impact."
> 
> Source:  Mass. irked by colleges' willingness to accept non-MCAS diplomas,
> The Boston Globe, by Michele Kurtz, December 23, 2002.
> 
> You simply must go to my site and look at the cartoon related to this story
> that I posted on our site with the permission of the cartoonist Kevin
> Keene -  http://www.geocities.com/stophsa/Peyser.html
> 
> Looks like a not-so-underground railroad is emerging to deliver us from the
> oppression and injustice of high stakes testing!
>