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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]

Maybe those in the DCC realized the tests don't matter years before obedient sheep west of 270 figured it out for one year and then complied again.

The fact that never crossed some readers' minds is the double standard.  [/quote]

No - to think that DCC students and/or Whitman students intentionally tank tests is a really jaded and pessimistic way to think. I'm a pp and I'm gonna repeat what I said above - the biggest problem to me with all of this is that student may be encouraged by teachers, school admin and/or parents to TANK a test - again, that is very different than not prepping for a test. The students are still "sheep" in both cases bc they are following some adults' edicts/encouragement, and the adults are setting a horrible example. If the admin or parents at Whitman (or any other high school) wanted to protest the exam, there were many ways they could have done it without putting the ball onto the students and thus reflecting on the students' performance. [/quote]

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