I always suspected that the state boards of education promoted mediocrity - it's better to feel good than to think. When the goal is to produce happy worker bees, collective mediocrity follows but the long term outcome will be a societal fall.

No wonder Brave New World is not required reading material in school.

[edit] No one is assessing the assessors. We need to ... then tar and feather them. [/edit]

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