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A comment on L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal. Parent comment

Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by madengr on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:15PM (#19803118)
I don’t want the USA to turn into India or China, where your academic fate is decided by some cruddy standardized test given in 5th grade.
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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by munk-a on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:33PM (#19803257)
I don't either - but neither do I want it to be determined on the even more absurd basis of who your parents are.

There should be a fair evaluation of students, designing that fair evaluation isn't trivial, but it's something we can work toward.

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Re:L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents i... by povertyworld on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:10PM (#19803920)
Well, I guess that opinion just depends on how well you did on standardized tests in 5th grade. I smoked all my peers on that test they give you at the end of elementary. It would have been great if some communist party bureaucrat swooped in and took me to a school full of high scorers. Too bad that was my peak academically. Ha.
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