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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No dog in this fight, but from what I can discern [b]people are angry at Whitman students for tanking a test that the teachers/administrators told them[/b] - at least that one year - was of no particular consequence.  So they impugn the character and work ethic of the Whitman students, as opposed to what they'd do every other year, which is to attribute the success of Whitman students to their parents' SES, rather than to the students' intelligence or diligence.

Given that you'd dump on the Whitman kids under either scenario, I'm not sure the teachers/administrators were wrong to tell the students that the PARCC exams were of no great consequence that year.  It's not like students there don't have other pressures to deal with.  [/quote]

I don't care if Whitman students tank a test. I guess I care, as a member of society, if a teacher/administrator told them to tank a test. I do care when people use the lower test scores of the non-western/wealthy/white high schools in the county to show that the non-western/wealthy/white high schools are no good (or that the students who attend the non-western/wealthy/white high schools are no good) but discount the lower test scores of Whitman on grounds that the students could have done well if they'd felt like it.[/quote]

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