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Can you send me a copy of the article you did? I thought I was the
only guy in the state that thought the test was too hard, nobody
would print that anybody had problems with the difficulty level of 
the test, everybody thought it was just peachy when 80% flunked
out.


Would you be willing to be quoted or testify to the state legislature
on this?


Subject: 
             Re: OSPI TO EXAMINE WHY 7/10 GRADE MATH IS IN 4TH GRADE TEST, 1ST GRADE
             HOMEWORK FROM HELL
        Date: 
             Thu, 01 Oct 1998 01:51:51 GMT
       From: 
             lunarchy@ncfweb.net (Shea F. Kenny)
 Organization: 
             Moonbear, Lunar Development Corporation
 Newsgroups: 
             seattle.general, seattle.politics, wa.politics, ba.politics, soc.culture.asian.american
  References: 
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        I wrote an article when the test results came out, sometime
before June, asking the same question.  It's far too difficult for
fourth graders and they'll never do very well on it.  Any idiot should
be able to figure out that you need a test for every grade level. Good
luck.  Those people up there don't care what you think. They'll
explain themselves to you all day long and if you don't get it, it's
your problem. 


        The only way out is to GET RID OF THEM and the best place to
start is with the people that wrote and defend the testing. They're
the one's without a clue.  In order to do that, you'll have to get rid
of Stanford.  Hehe.  Good luck.  He doesn't have the courage to fire
people that are incompetent, nor does he have the intellectual
framework to decide who those people are.  All he can do is the same
of what they can do.  Listen to and approve of anything that sounds
good.  Make it sound good, it must be good.


        If that weren't the case, there wouldn't be this problem. That
test is boneheaded ignorant and stupid.




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Shea F. Kenny (Moonbear, Lunar Development Corp)
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