On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:23:14 -0400, Gene Kearns wrote:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:21:35 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:40:57 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

"As Sommers understood, it is boys’ aggressive and rationalist nature
- redefined by educators as a behavioral disorder - that’s getting so
many of them in trouble in the feminized schools. Their problem: they
don’t want to be girls."

It is not just a boy/girl thing. Public schools want to dumb everyone
down to the level of the insipid assholes who run the public school
system. If some kid does start to show creativity or finds themselves
bored with this dull gray regimen they immediately get labelled ADD
and get drugged into submission.

You should realize that this problem has been created by the Federal
Government trying to oversee "education." The net result is that, in
an effort to get data to ensure "accountability", education now
represents little more than a heightened ability to take standardized
tests.

Teachers and administrators are now graded (and hired and fired) on
the ability of the students to pass these tests..... not their ability
to "educate."

Educators in higher education deal with this problem on a daily
basis... students that can't form a coherent sentence, think
critically, or have any clue how to apply logic to a math problem.
However, they can show passing scores on "competency tests."
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Having given many standardized tests, I can say I've never seen a question
that the students at that level shouldn't be able to answer.

The ability to pass a standardized test is no different than the ability to
pass a 'handmade' final exam. In math, the questions will be much the same.
The standardized test insures that students from different schools,
counties, and states all have a minimum proficiency. The recent news
regarding the scores in various Maryland counties show why this is
desirable.

If the students can do nothing, and they pass the tests, then the tests may
be too easy, or the 'passing' standard is too low (most likely, due to
politics and unions, the latter).
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