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Oops... typed in the wrong place in the previous post: What I am saying is that I haven't heard of a better metric than the test scores to assess school performance. What you are trying to do is use test scores to prove me wrong. [/quote]

PP, nobody has said that test scores should be disregarded entirely. So that's a straw man. The discussion has been over whether overall average test scores for a school are a good measure of how good the school is.

And, speaking of goodness, I hope that you're not the PP who thinks that people with more money are more good than people with less money.[/quote]

The phrase "better metric" implies that the metric in question is a good metric. But test scores are not necessarily a good metric because there are so many other factors, many of which cannot be reduced to a metric.

If 80 percent of lottery winners are broke in five years, does that mean if I win the lottery there is an 80 percent chance I will be broke in five years? No, it doesn't. If 40 percent of students at my kid's high school test poorly on standardized tests, does that mean my child might? No, it doesn't.[/quote]

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