Mike Angwin wrote in a message to Michael Mcsorley:
MM>Does anyone have any ideas as to how we can test our schools without th
MM>kind of nonsense?!! Prep classes for standardized tests 
MM>completely defeat the purpose! The prep class that should have 
MM>prepared these students for the test is called EIGHTH GRADE! 
MM>Why are these kids almost done with high school AUGH! And 
MM>people are screaming for COMPUTERS! Kids should learn how to 
MM>friggin READ FIRST!!!!!!
 MA>     There is only one appropiate test for schools...the test of 
 MA> a free and unfettered marketplace.  If educational institutions 
 MA> are subjected to the same conditions of consumer approval or 
 MA> disapproval that all institutions in the private sector are 
 MA> subjected to those institutions will grow or decline in 
 MA> accordance with their real value to the community.  No other 
 MA> test can achieve positive results.
While I have no argument with this per se,  how do you deal with the fact 
that it's hard to judge the "product" of an institution of that sort,  _any_ 
educational institution,  until some years after a number of groups have 
passed through their whole process...?
That strikes me as being the first objection that anybody's likely to raise, 
in response to this.
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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