high stakes tests, diebold, cash, oh my (cartoon)

[KaliTracy]

[Peace Patriot]

1. That's cute! And it seems like it could be adapted to electronic voting..

...machine fraud. It wouldn't surprise me if, one day, we have to pay to vote (just as soldiers have to pay for their own supplies to fight the Oil Cartel's wars). (--coming full circle back to the Poll Tax, due to the exhorbitant cost of servicing and replacing shoddy electronic voting systems).

[KaliTracy]

2. i think it's doing both --pointing to the test and to the weird elections

(with the use of Diebold) otherwise the cartoonist would have used the typical test grading corporations....

high stakes tests are a lot like our paperless voting, too -- educators aren't allowed to see the tests -- even after they are filled in -- the tests go to an "off site" to get graded -- last year a truck wrecked and lost 100s of tests... I think a large batch was destroyed in the electronic grader, as well --

and any that were needed for graduation... well, we're so sorry (but even if we can't prove you passed so you can graduate with your class, we'll give you the opportunity to take the test again...). If students don't pass certain sections, they can't be promoted, even if they show proficiency in their schoolwork.

For more educational atrocities see Susan Ohanian's site
http://www.susanohanian.org


http://stophighstakestests.org