Average doesn’t work for me
Posted on | August 13, 2003 |
Does anyone else loathe average as much as I do? I like to be above average. I fear average. I fear what most of our nation’s tendency toward average will mean for all of us. It is common knowledge that student test scores in the United States have mostly decreased in the last thirty years. One teacher explained the decline this way: ‘The so-called decline in test scores is just the opposite. Instead of an elite five percent scoring 1100, we have 50 percent or more scoring 900. And that is not decline, that is a spread of excellence.’ *pause while I shudder*
OK, I’m back.
Huhwha?!!? This make absolutely no sense what so ever. So the above average are made to be the sacrificial lambs so that everyone can be average? Curriculum has been dumbed down. Thus, the above average suffers in a sea of mediocrity.
It all seems so 1984/Brave New World to me. We are destined to be an ordinary band of drones–shameful of all things extraordinary and eager to ’spread the excellence’. Of course, soon there won’t be any excellence to spread. Only undistinguished humdrum.
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2 Responses to “Average doesn’t work for me”
August 14th, 2003 @ 7:25 am
hey, you are from SD
how’s the sheep capital of the world treating you? Notice that here are a lot of “capitals” - hay capital of the world, sheep captial of the world… ha, notice te pattern? 
August 14th, 2003 @ 9:36 am
And I assume she didn’t say anything about whether the tests have gotten easier.