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~ For those of you in Roslindale, “illiterate” means the
inability to read.
 ~ I mention Roslindale because the principal of
Washington Irving
Middle School won’t accept failure, either. His strategy for kids who
can’t do basic math er, who are “non-traditionally enumerated,” is
(allegedly) to hand out the MCAS tests to teachers in advance.
And he’s not alone. These alternative testing strategies - also
known as “cheating” - are on the rise at schools across the state
.~ School bureaucrats hate standardized testing. They
hate academic
standards even more. But most of all, they loathe accurate reporting of
their results.
~The only MCAS graduation requirement for high school
students is that
they pass the 10th-grade math and English tests. If you’re smarter than
a ninth grader, you get a diploma in Massachusetts.
~ So what do you call a Massachusetts public school
student struggling to read at the 10th grade level?
A graduate!
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