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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]
Still tilting at windmills?  [/quote]

I think it's great that you get so much use out of the literary phrase you learned in middle or high school.  I mean, it's not as impressive as you think it is and you aren't actually using it properly, but no doubt in certain circles you probably get credit for being smarter than you are for using it.  So good on you![/quote]

English professor here who doesn't care about any of these schools but who has horrible pregnancy insomnia. What is wrong with the poster's use of this phrase? It seems correctly used to me. You may disagree that you were tilting at windmills, but it's a reasonable charge when looked at from a different perspective. [/quote]

Hopefully not one that teaches my kid.  The phrase refers to responding to or attacking an imaginary enemy.  The poster who used that phrase in response a post that failed to address the PP's data.  In particular, they asked why a school with a low FARMS rate wouldn't have scores commensurate with other schools with that FARMS rate, and has scores only marginally better or worse than schools with much higher FARMS rates.  They concluded by asking why that wouldn't be a concern.  That's not fighting an imaginary enemy.  That's a valid data based question.

Sorry, Professor, but that's a misuse of a phrase.  [/quote]

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