Sunday, March 18, 2007

The dark side of standardized testing

One of my favorite webcomics is "Irregular Webcomic" by David Morgan-Mar. Today's comic struck my teacher's funny bone:



In his notes he says, "If you ever wonder about the eventual outcome of the modern trend of making sure children don't fail high school by making the passing grades low enough that they can all manage to scrape through, now you know. Someone, somewhere, decided that having kids fail looked bad, so to boost the statistics they lowered the standard rather than giving the teachers the resources and remuneration they deserve."

The full post is here:
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1512.html

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It is simply matchless phrase ;)