Re: Testing, testers: contempt or respect

["Quan, Cao" <QCao009@AOL.COM>]

In a message dated 9/25/02 3:39:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Newton.Paul@BTOPENWORLD.COM writes:


> But that's where politics and high stakes get problematic... but if there
> were a greater public understanding of the limitations of educational
> assessment then inappropriate policies would be far less likely even to get
> on to the drawing board

Paul:

Thanks for that clear and concise response.  There cannot be greater public
understanding when the BRT and politicians spin themselves into a corner by
using high stakes to promise something they cannot and do not have any
intention of delivering.  Just as CEOs have turned their back on their
companies' retiring employees, testing companies have turned their backs on
the children they are testing.

While I respect the intellectual task you have set out to do, let me state it
in the simplest terms I know how.  In Auschwitz, my friend, Nazis went to
work every day and sent Jews to burn, and then they came home every night and
ate dinner with their wives and did homework with their children while Mozart
and Wagner played in the background.  In Vietnam, Paul, both the Viet Cong
and our American friends killed innocent people.  So in the name of God, I am
very clear where I draw the line in the sand.  You are either with humanity
or you are against it.  It is no longer an intellectual discourse.  Where do
you stand?  Where are you when they destroy the children?  Are you with
Rumsfeld and Connie Rice and Bin Laden?  And where will you be when they
write their memoirs 20 years from now, and four generations, four destroyed
generations later?

Quan
Cao Anh Quan

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