[cartan]

Would it be legal to hand those out to voters before polling places?

[Gene Eric]

The power of optimism.

[Pollster1]

Robert De Gennaro, a teacher and lead union representative, said he expects plenty of "dirty tricks" to be forced on teachers whose paychecks increasingly depend on student test scores. "If you were given a choice between your salary and hoodwinking kids, which would you choose?" he asked.

There may be a third option, but I just can't think of it. What is it that teachers and professional educators could do with kids, besides tricking them, that would make it look like the kids had learned? I know most of my teachers used to do it with me when I was young, and my parents did it with me all the time. Even my professors must have done it - frequently - and I know it was not just hoodwinking.

[EBH]

I have a big problem with this! What's the difference here between handing them a brain pill or a cup of kool-aid!

What happens when the test scores go down?

Sorry, this is just terribly wrong.

Plus ohhh....what happens when their best friend hands them a “special snack” laced with something else.

This is just riddled with dangerous hazards being instilled in the mind of the young.

[EBH]

where is the zero drug tolerance policy now...

[LearsFool]

"If you were given a choice between your salary and hoodwinking kids, which would you choose?" he asked.

If you were given a choice between teaching kids and hoodwinking them, which would you choose, Mr. Gennaro?

[6SJ7]

...in the same way the "placebo effect" allows medical patients to swallow sugar pills as fake treatments to spark healing.

One may trick the brain into a chemical rebalance to then fight disease, but you can't trick the brain into remembering something it never learned like "what is 2 + 2".

[DH]

THE TEST!

That is the only thing our public indoctrination centers teach...the test. Everything revolves around the “test” scores and everything else in life’s importance is pushed to the side so that they can teach the “test.”

How bad has it become. The only important curriculum is the “test,” political indoctrination and correctness and nothing else. No wonder graduates of public indoctrination centers can’t reason, analyze, do rational thinking or independent thought when they graduate.

[backwoods-engineer]

My God. This is inhuman. They are following right after BF Skinner, aren't they?

Get your kids out of these demonic schools, people. For the sake of your kids' soul.

[Bender2]

Re: From skydiving to mohawk hair cuts, school principals have tried various stunts to pump up test scores.

Gadzooks! If those principals knew what was what, they'd... pass out booze before the test--

I always score better when... I'm all liquored up!