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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: bad item
In a message dated 5/7/03 7:41:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gbracey@erols.com writes: > I think this is a wondereful item. It teaches kids to not trust tests. > Bill & Jerry: A higher order thinking skill would be to oppose the test...the next step after recognizing that the answer to life is not on the test!!! It would, however, put the student in conflict with the teacher administering the test, the parent pushing the test, the principal of the school enforcing the test, the school superintendent cheerleading higher scores, and the politician showing up for a photo opp touting accountability. Seems it no longer takes a village to educate a child...Seems we have turned the hierarchy upside down inside out, and it now takes one very clear-thinking child to educate an idiotic system bent on self-destruction! Quan
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