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Precisely, it's all a bunch cr@p. Does this remind anyone else of Kurt Vonnegut's short story 
"Harrison Bergeron" from the book "Welcome to the Monkey House"?

[i]"It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is smarter, better-looking, stronger, or faster than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced. The government forces citizens to wear "handicaps" (a mask if they are too handsome or beautiful, earphones with deafening radio signals to make intelligent people unable to concentrate and form thoughts, and heavy weights to slow down those who are too strong or fast)."[/i]

I remember reading this as satire in high school twenty years ago. Will the works of Vonnegut, Orwell and Huxley be moved from fiction to non-fiction in another twenty? Let's hope not.

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It doesn't remind me of that short story, which yes, I have read. (And if you think that the works of Vonnegut, Orwell, and Huxley have not already long since moved from fiction to non-fiction, then you either haven't read them, or you haven't been paying attention.) Do you think that grading elementary-school children on a scale of ES/P/I/N instead of a scale of A/B/C/D keeps them from learning? Do you believe that MCPS instituted Curriculum 2.0 to hold the advanced kids back?[/quote]

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