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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]It was all about the test scores, Rhee used secret mind control and brain washing techniques to turn hundreds and hundreds of honest and upstanding teachers and administrators into her legion of evil minions to do her bidding to fake the results and even now, years after she's gone, she still controls them through threat of Omerta and her roving bands of secret death squads that patrol all the schools.  And, she did all that in just three short years.

Uh huh.[/quote]

What is your explanation for the abnormally high number of wrong-to-right erasures in schools which showed significant test score gains, but then showed significant test score losses when test security was increased?

Do you find that something to ridicule? Is it your position that we should stick our fingers in our ears and chant, "la, la, la"?

How can you support test scores as the basis for judging success while simultaneously joking about concern that the test scores might not be legitimate? Don't you realize that good teachers who are expected to improve upon artificially-inflated scores of their incoming students suffer from this while their cheating colleages prosper? Do you have a joke about that as well? Because that doesn't seem very funny to me.

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RHEE is the one who raised security, so obviously she was concerned about eliminating cheating and concerned about the process being more controlled and HONEST.  I'm not sure who you are talking about, where it comes to "joking about test scores not being legitimate" - I don't see that in PP's post.  You seen to be getting posters mixed up - and your own confusion is no viable basis for attempting to debunk other posters.[/quote]

1) Rhee only raised security after the USA Today report exposed the high number of wrong-to-right erasures. She dragged her feet on investigating possible cheating and as recently as two days ago denied that there was significant cheating. She continues to assert that the test score gains were legitimate and not influenced by wrong-to-right erasures.

2) You say you are not sure about "joking about test scores not being legitimate" -- a quote that you will not find in my post. Since I didn't write what you are quoting, I am not surprised that you are confused. Please refer to my actual post, not your revision of it. I mentioned "joking about concern that the test scores might not be legitimate", something the post that I quoted does throughout its entirety.

3) I was responding to one specific poster whose post I quoted. I assure you that any confusion is entirely on your part.
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