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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: flatsville who wrote (40338)	9/28/2000 12:57:20 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (3) of 769670

"The some schools spend months simply preparing for TAAS to the exclusion of real academics. Many schools do not have adequate libraries, but have plenty of expensive TAAS materials." I have a couple of questions. You imply that the kids are being given instruction about specific items on the test. Of course this is highly unethical...maybe even illegal. A well developed test is a sampling of the general knowledge base. If the kids are being prepared to do well when tested on there knowledge, skills, and abilities related to Academic Skills, great. If they are being instructed on the actual test items, then the sample is not a sample at all. This, I agree, is the worst thing a state school system could sponsor. Do you have information that the general approach is to raise the kids knowledge, skills and abilities related to Academic Skills....or, that they are being instructed on the actual test items? If not, sorry, but it just amounts to another uninformed partison slam on Bush. BTW can you define "Real Academics" as apposed to the ones represented on the TAAS?

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