Corporate Reform Logic:

“We demand standardized testing to show that the public system is bad.We want it privatized”

“Oh- standardized testing shows the public system is good and and getting even better and there is no need for privatization?”

“We don’t like the test.”

Misinformation and misuse of statistics occurs on all fronts.  I remember an article not that long ago where the author added up every possible interruption in the school day that could possibly occur in every school in the province to arrive at a figure of 38% of class time spent on academics.  Then the author went ahead to note that this was the AVERAGE (implying that half are worse). 

I also remember an article in the Star several years ago with this headline:  “10% of Canadians a Minority”.

“Mildon says there is still a problem with how boys view reading and writing.

“There’s a conception that reading and writing is a feminine act. It is changing a bit, for example male hip-hop artists, they are writing poetry. But it’s a long, difficult cultural battle. We haven’t got there yet,” said Mildon.”

I never did see the act of reading and writing as a feminine act. Skills yes, but not base on cultural lines, An article that I read yesterday, may be very right on its rhetoric blasting the feminine culture and ideology in our schools.

On average 20 students in each of the 1600 schools took the test. Would love to see the raw figures of the individual schools, the school boards, and curious if it was truly random.

I’m beginning to suspect that, like all of CBC’s deliberate left-of-centre news reporting, that their ‘twaddle’ when covering education is by design.  That’s why the education twaddle gets the stamp of approval from all of the CBC brass.  All employees at the public trough like to protect the status quo—it’s a good life!
Propaganda is another way of puting it:  hey, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.

Because we all know there is no bias at the Sun or the National Post or the Globe or Global or CTV. LOL. Democracy and media diversity go hand in hand.

Mr. Little, what causes the public angst, when our national, tax-supported broadcaster, CBC gives us biased facts is that it is affecting our country, and not always in a positive way:  we all know that because they’re tax-supported, they should be completely trustworthy when giving us news/facts; otherwise they are using our money only for some people’s advantage—usually their own