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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> In case you're wondering-- I was thinking of boycotting the MCAS myself, but
> decided against it for personal reasons, regarding the choices I'll have to
> make two years from now.
Keep on truckin', man! You gotta make the best out of school. They like to do
it backwards here: instead of teaching you useful stuff and letting you
practice it on your own, they have you perform a bunch of essentially
meaningless tasks and let you figure out how to learn from them.
You can get something out of standardized tests if you apply yourself - like
me, I can draw bullets for bulleted lists like no one else (#2 pencil no less)!
Seriously, look at the kids planning the boycot, they're learning to get
themselves heard, to be their own spokes-people, to organize thmeselves. I
learned a lot about deductive reasoning from multiple choice tests. And you
can learn how to please people who don't actually know how to recognize high
quality work (like corporate managers and human resources departments).
Of course it's not fair to poorer schools, but there really shouldn't be poor
schools should there? Why is school funding based on local property tax? It's
because rich people deserve a better education. Why? Because they're rich,
and they hold the political and economic power in this country. Now you
wouldn't want the ruling class to be stupid, would you? How would we ever get
along with stupid leaders? They might waste all our precious money on poor
people.
-Phil
PS. Why are you writing Lugnet posts in the middle of the day, Shiri? Don't
you have classes to boycot?
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| (...) I can answer this one... It's vacation week for Massachusetts (and coincidentally many other places). It's vacation week in MA because this is the week which contains Patriot's Day (April 19, nor the closest Monday to April 19). For other (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Good thing you're saying this in .fun, because it really is pretty funny. But if you're seriously espousing this line of thought instead of just being silly, take it up in .debate where it can be properly skewered. ++Lar (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Well, sort of. The plan was to: a. show up for the test b. not write *anything* on the test forms c. use the time "constructively" to write a letter to the superintendent or other representatives. At least that was the boycotters plan in my (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people)
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