My Mega-Tinfoil-Hat-Thought of the Year - re: No Child Left Behind

[DS1]

Standardized testing can tell a lot about the way people think. What if the scores are irrelevent, and NCOB is really a National fishing net for easily manipulable kids and teens? Sort of like a Nazi Youth thing.

Oh damn, I invoked Godwin's law in the OP. I guess that's the end of this thread. Still, something to think about anyway.

[wli]

1. c.f. New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

Stalin-style "lobotomize the dissidents" plotting. It may well be that they're using the NCLB testing for that "screening."

[Mr Rabble]

2. Are you kidding? I would be more surprised if...

they were not doing that. Standardized testing has proven worthless.

They are using these tests as the begining of our "file" or whatever you would like to call it.

Total Information Awareness.

[liberalhistorian]

3. My parents are both retired teachers, and

believe it or not, they've had the same thoughts and are becoming more and more convinced of it every day. They never liked standardized testing to begin with, and for good reason, and they're very glad they're now retired. Maybe it isn't such a mega-tin-foil idea.

[DS1]

8. Perhaps

One certainly can't accuse the PNAC'rs of not having their ducks in a row. In order to fulfill the agenda, Syria and Iran, they're going to need a good supply of "volunteers". A very good supply. Still, they're constantly putting the original signatories of the PNAC Letter to Clinton in 1998 in places, almost like a chess game.

Eliot Abrams is Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs

Wolfowitz is now the Head of the World Bank.

John Bolton is our Ambassador to the UN, whether we like it or not.

Armitage left one day after Powell resigned.

Bill Bennett lost himself in gambling and drink.

Paula Dobriansky is just all over the freakin place

Everyone knows Bill Kristol

Richard Perle thinks first-strike bombing of North Korean missiles sites is a good idea

Don't even have to link Donald Rumsfeld

and so on, and so forth

[Redstone]

4. Nah. It's really, REALLY stupid, but not that.

Redstone

[DS1]

7. I take your "really, REALLY stupid" and shuffle it under the shadow

of my :tinfoilhat:

[jpgray]

5. I always thought the standardized testing was useful in one of two ways

To undermine public schools and justify lower funding by producing bad scores, or to claim to have solved the public education problem by citing a impressive-sounding % improvement in scores. This latter one happens every few years--I think Ed Koch pulled it in NYC a few times. In either case, the educational value isn't readily apparent.

[Junkdrawer]

6. Mordor needs a way of grading its recruits. n/t

[mzteris]

9. Things that make you go

hhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........

Not that tinfoil-ish, imo.....

(Note to self: ANOTHER reason to homeschool!!)


BTW - are you aware of the legislation (underway or passed?) that will REQUIRE mental health screening for ALL public school children. And they can the REQUIRE that the child be given the drug THEY think best.... (I may have some of the details slightly askew but the jist is there.... ) think about it - you're gonna let "those people" test YOUR kid and PRESCRIBE meds - even against YOUR (the parent's) wishes.....??

I think not.

[Nikki Stone 1]

10. Studies in England prove that standardized testing reduces motivation

It's part of the dumbing down process.

I'm trying to find the link. The story was from Britain about 2 years ago.

[Al-CIAda]

11. Nah, 'New Freedom' is for that. This is about pocketing taxpayer

money, silly.

Crime member Neil Bush is into the 'testing' business these days.