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To: abstract who wrote (6004)	10/5/2000 5:27:50 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

The system already overlooks individual character and achievement to a large extent. How much more money do we need to spend before public schools begin to have the success that private schools have had in educating the individual (generally speaking)? How do we gauge the success? LoF

To: abstract who wrote (6004)	10/5/2000 6:57:08 PM
From: techguerrilla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

The SAT: The best test ever written . . . . Does that mean I would let it rule the day? No way! My hard work in high school was horribly deflated by my poor "verbal" score. There's a high school in the northern suburbs of Chicago in which all math teachers who teach a particular course are required to give the same departmental test on each chapter of that course on the same day throughout the year. To make standardization even worse, the students cannot keep the tests for study purposes. Why? The math department wants to give the same series of tests again the next year. Standarization and unionization have set the tone for the ruin of our country's public education system. Teaching has become a "blue collar" job. Cruising, John