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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Have you ever been in a public school? Doesn't sound like it. Some of them were great places before all this testing.

Right, which is why we graduated millions of kids who were at best semiliterate, unable to make change, unable to point out the Pacific Ocean on a world map, who think Abe Lincoln was one of the Founding Fathers, and that Ben Franklin was one of our first Presidents, et cetera....

Great place maybe, but education sure wasn't so great...[/quote]

Wonderful that you believe all of that.  I will let my students know what you think of them next time they service your car, prepare your restaurant meal and serve it, cut your hair, repair your roads, fix your plumbing, service your HVAC, draw plans for your landscaping, etc.  I will ask them if they can tell you about Ben Franklin and then I will say that they are not worthy to be there working for you because you expect them to be able to point to the Pacific Ocean before they can work for you.

Millions of worthless people?  You underestimate people by a long shot.  Someone might not meet the standard for who Ben Franklin is, but that says absolutely nothing about what they CAN do.  [/quote]

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