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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]

This.  How many posters on here from the W schools use the Greatschools rankings to impugn the high schools east of 270?  Now they want a mulligan from the rankings because their snowflakes were told to take a dive on the test.  Nobody takes glee in a school's rankings plummeting.  But some of us do take great joy in seeing a ridiculous double standard exposed.[/quote]

It isn't really a double standard.  I double standard would be saying that inability to do well on the test east of 270 reflects poorly on those students/schools/families, but the inability to do well on the test somehow doesn't reflect the same of Whitman students/schools/families.

But it appears that many Whitman students made a conscious decision to do poorly on the test that one year, given the dramatic one year drop and the equally dramatic rise back to normal score levels.  A conscience decision to fail the test is not the same as the inability to pass it despite one's best efforts.

One can very reasonably argue that consciously failing a test raised all sorts of issues about Whitman and its students/families in which they may not look good overall and/or relative to their peers elsewhere in the county.  But that is a different issue.[/quote]

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