Re: Listen Closely To the Bottom Line

[James Harold Crouse <jcrouse@UDEL.EDU>]

I suggest, Nathan, that you consider sublimating your anger from taking
the PSAT by learning some of the issues involved in the uses and misuses
of the PSAT and SAT and then speaking out on them carefully. You might
begin by reading Nader and Nairn's The Reign of ETS, David Owen's None of
the Above, Crouse and Trusheim's The Case Against the SAT, and Jencks and
Phillips' The Black-White Test Score Gap.

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Louis Harrington wrote:

> ARN,
> Yo, it's the radical Nathan Harrington again. You all continue to write
> tons of interesting stuff, but I may have to quit the Network soon,
> because I do not have time  to read and respond to stuff, nor do I like
> to have my mail box cluttered up. I took at PSAT on Tuesday. Pardon the
> rough language, but it was some motherfucking bull shit! I actually tried
> to do, my best for my own sake, and I may have done well. BUT, if I got a
> perfect score, that would not change my opinion that it is ROTTON,
> ATROCIOUS, ANTI-INTELLECTUAL, ANTI-EDUCATIONAL, ANTI-PROGGRESSIVE,
> ANMTI-STUDENT, DECEPTIVE, CULTURALY BIASED, RACIST, SEXIST, NONSENSICAL,
> master piece of phsycological oppression by the right wing establishment.
> For me, this is not a personal issue, it is apolitcal issue and we nedd
> to stand up and speeek truth to power. The answers were totally
> subjective. Any good lawyer could argue any one of the answers for anyone
> of the grammer or reading comprehension or writting skills questions to
> be right.This is nothing short of MENTAL SLAVERY and those of us whp are
> being damned and brain washed by this system are having no say at all. We
> must write letters, sign petitions, hold rally, take overs, civil
> disobidience, anything to beat into the brains of the powers that be that
> we will not be complacent any longer. Help me turn the tide. ONA MOVE.
> Peace and action,
>         Nathan
>
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