ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL: “So for the time being, all teachers will devote class time to teaching language arts sample questions. Now if you turn to page eleven, please, I have some things I want to go over with you.”
ROLAND “PREZ” PRYZBYLEWSKI (a former policeman): “I don’t get it, all this so we score higher on the state tests? If we’re teaching the kids the test questions, what is it assessing in them?”
TEACHER: “Nothing, it assesses us. The test scores go up, they can say the schools are improving. The scores stay down, they can’t.”
PREZ: “Juking the stats.”
TEACHER: “Excuse me?”
PREZ: “Making robberies into larcenies, making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels. I’ve been here before.”
TEACHER: “Wherever you go, there you are.”
- From the HBO TV series ‘The Wire’.
At the end of last week, pictures of fruity girls jumping for joy at their A Level results managed to push the grim stock market news off the front pages for a while. Pictures like this:
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