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In the discussion thread: What happened when 3 PhDs decided to take a 3rd grade practice test [View all]

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 02:04 AM

61. That's ghastly! Such a policy is new to me.

It's like a dystopian novel. Operation Dumb-Down the Planet.

I suspect you won't find such a policy at the top private schools! What you'll find there is general education and encouragement to reach high, not this over-specialized fully-tracked-to-nowhere insanity of education deform.

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79 replies	Author	Time	Post
What happened when 3 PhDs decided to take a 3rd grade practice test [View all]	proud2BlibKansan	Jan 2012	OP
This is outrageous	alcibiades_mystery	Jan 2012	#1
That's probably a district policy	proud2BlibKansan	Jan 2012	#7
both boys way above their grade level in reading. 4 or more years above. they were always encouraged	seabeyond	Jan 2012	#23
I never got the whole "not allowed to read above the grade level" thing	Posteritatis	Jan 2012	#28
As was I, in the sixties. My mom had some rather pointed words with one of my	gkhouston	Jan 2012	#38
Thanks to my school system's stellar budgeting, checking out stuff above my level wasn't a problem	Posteritatis	Jan 2012	#39
The thought is to obey authority.	Sirveri	Jan 2012	#46
"you will obey them or be punished"	Trillo	Jan 2012	#75
My second grade teacher in Florence, KY was named Miss Ockerman	OriginalGeek	Jan 2012	#77
Not so frequent.	Igel	Jan 2012	#42
Yes, this.	boppers	Jan 2012	#49
That's moronic	XemaSab	Jan 2012	#62
That's ghastly! Such a policy is new to me.	JackRiddler	Jan 2012	#61
Yeah, that's the part that made me really angry also.	distantearlywarning	Jan 2012	#74
What a bunch of elitist crap!	justiceischeap	Jan 2012	#2
By the time I was in 3rd grade I was reading at 12th grade level. My teachers,	kestrel91316	Jan 2012	#22
I was the same way	EvolveOrConvolve	Jan 2012	#31
that's no big deal. At the age of 5 I was reading double-PhD material.	provis99	Jan 2012	#55
I made it all the way to 24th grade!	jberryhill	Jan 2012	#59
Do you remember how they determined what grade level you were at?	Prometheus Bound	Jan 2012	#64
I think it was noticed by my inattention to things.	justiceischeap	Jan 2012	#67
What a terrible shame.. To take something	annabanana	Jan 2012	#3
I can't comment on the story, but I think it's a great question.	Donald Ian Rankin	Jan 2012	#71
I read it as "Tikki-eyed Mista", sub-consciously inserting the missing hyphen.	Trillo	Jan 2012	#4
Me too -- and I'm naming my new rock band	Atman	Jan 2012	#41
Same here. Actually, the whole tiger story sounds like gibberish.	yardwork	Jan 2012	#44
Oh, idioms like that pop up all over the place	Occulus	Jan 2012	#54
As I'm a much slower reader than probably 99% of y'all,	kentauros	Jan 2012	#45
Copy/paste thing	boppers	Jan 2012	#52
As I said,	kentauros	Jan 2012	#56
Always skim the questions before reading the essay	jberryhill	Jan 2012	#60
Shows what happens when someone writes questions on something they know nothing about	n2doc	Jan 2012	#5
These Are Typical Standardized Test Questions	Yavin4	Jan 2012	#13
No, this is a great question.	Donald Ian Rankin	Jan 2012	#70
What a stupid question.	Kalidurga	Jan 2012	#6
yes	Rosa Luxemburg	Jan 2012	#8
No.	Donald Ian Rankin	Jan 2012	#72
There is no such thing as a perfect score on a standardized test	proud2BlibKansan	Jan 2012	#9
No, it's a great question.	Donald Ian Rankin	Jan 2012	#69
i m a teacher and i see poorly worded test questions all the time	arely staircase	Jan 2012	#10
My Third Grader	grntuscarora	Jan 2012	#11
WHy is it about tigers anything?	Betsy Ross	Jan 2012	#12
Me, too, because tigers don't talk.	Fawke Em	Jan 2012	#18
exactly	Marnie	Jan 2012	#21
grubs used to be a normal part of the typical human diet	eShirl	Jan 2012	#66
Thanks for saying it.....	Curmudgeoness	Jan 2012	#19
Reading in context is everything.	boppers	Jan 2012	#47
I wonder how that teacher would react to my kids who read two books at once	riderinthestorm	Jan 2012	#14
Some of this could be due to TPTB wanting children to watch TV	Trillo	Jan 2012	#15
K&R	Solly Mack	Jan 2012	#16
They gave up after the first question?	Prometheus Bound	Jan 2012	#17
I've worked with both practice and real tests at every grade level from K through 6.	proud2BlibKansan	Jan 2012	#20
I've come to believe that the PURPOSE of these tests is to make children hate learning	Lydia Leftcoast	Jan 2012	#25
I really don't want to believe that	proud2BlibKansan	Jan 2012	#34
Charles Dickens eerily foretold what we could expect in "Hard Times"	coalition_unwilling	Jan 2012	#53
The problem with all sort answer tests is that the person taking the test has to be	Marnie	Jan 2012	#26
These types of questions test understanding of the text, not knowledge.	Prometheus Bound	Jan 2012	#63
The right answer is Tiggers like to bounce!	Loudmxr	Jan 2012	#24
k&r	Starry Messenger	Jan 2012	#27
my son took an all day test last week. he was telling me about the story and question	seabeyond	Jan 2012	#29
wouldn't something like this lead to black/white thinking ?	JI7	Jan 2012	#30
Hopefully.	Donald Ian Rankin	Jan 2012	#79
That's an excellent question, and the right answer is c), of course.	Donald Ian Rankin	Jan 2012	#32
That's my first choice	proud2BlibKansan	Jan 2012	#35
I looked at my kid's science test.	Igel	Jan 2012	#43
I got C too. I learned to do well on tests, because, well, my brain functions oddly.	boppers	Jan 2012	#48
Your one is a classic fallacy	Donald Ian Rankin	Jan 2012	#51
There was no discussion of the positions when each was dropped. Only the height and time.	boppers	Jan 2012	#57
Here's my version	derby378	Jan 2012	#33
E	proud2BlibKansan	Jan 2012	#36
I would like to read more stories from your "Newt is fucked" series.	JBoy	Jan 2012	#40
BEST post I've seen in a very long time!	davsand	Jan 2012	#58
Aw, shucks...	derby378	Jan 2012	#78
I've run into this same nonsense when going over homework with my kids.	redqueen	Jan 2012	#37
There is an opt out movement	proud2BlibKansan	Jan 2012	#50
This one is a perfectly good question, not nonsense at all!	Donald Ian Rankin	Jan 2012	#68
I wasn't actually referring to this example...	redqueen	Jan 2012	#76
Interesting breakdown of responses to this	malthaussen	Jan 2012	#65
"What did the tigers do together" is pointless banality. What was the story really about is not.	ieoeja	Jan 2012	#73

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