Re: [FCARFORUM] FCAT Scoring in Temps' Hands

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In a message dated 3/12/2006 12:47:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
bobschaeffer@earthlink.net writes:

But  testing giant CTB/McGraw-Hill, which scores the FCAT, said graders 
don't  need an education background.

"Our rigorous training program provides  college graduates in any 
discipline with the skills needed to score the  tests," spokeswoman 
Kelley Carpenter wrote in an e-mail. She said that  hiring permanent 
graders is impossible because the work exists for only a  few months of 
the year.



Bob:
 
Next thing we know, our testing companies will be telling us we don't need  
"intelligent" leaders who can "read", just people who can "read" a teleprompter 
 from a script in very large print !!!  Reminds me of a certain President  
who walks into a closet door in China.  May be he just thought he could  move a 
Chinese wall- not to be confused with the Great Wall of China  - by the power 
of his "faith".  And here I thought the Most Rev Pat  Robertson told us "God 
didn't create no dummies" !!!
 
No wonder polticians do not need to take the test they are subjecting kids  
to.  It's good to be afraid when you are using fear as a tool.
 
 
Quan