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AOC Gives Ammo To School-Choice And Standardized Test Advocates
Townhall.com ^ | March 22, 2019 | Charles Vavruska

Posted on 03/23/2019 1:56:03 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 03/23/2019 1:56:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I don’t believe for a minute she ever tested in a 99th percentile.


2 posted on 03/23/2019 2:04:13 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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Maybe the 99th percentile if you exclude whites and Asians.


3 posted on 03/23/2019 2:08:00 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Kaslin

Probably 99th percentile on the Moron Index.


4 posted on 03/23/2019 2:10:40 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

No way. She makes the list of dumbest politicians ever.


5 posted on 03/23/2019 2:11:35 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Kaslin
She said at her school she was the only student who “looked like her."

Interestingly, the vast majority of students have a unique appearance. Even some identical twins do not have another person who looks like them.

The school wanted to label her learning disabled, but fortunately, she was saved because she was given a standardized test on which she scored in the 99th percentile.

I hate to say it, but the level of economic ignorance she routinely displays, degree in economics notwithstanding, supports the school's wisdom in this assessment. Furthermore, doing well on standardized tests does not mean a student is not learning disabled. My own learning disabled son did fantastic on standardized tests, always in the 99th percentile.

6 posted on 03/23/2019 2:21:23 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
I don’t believe for a minute she ever tested in a 99th percentile

Maybe 99th permillile.

7 posted on 03/23/2019 2:42:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

I actually believe her, though you should take it with a grain of salt because I was only 98th percentile.

She is a human chameleon, a very good one. That takes brains.


8 posted on 03/23/2019 2:58:04 PM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: Kaslin

Schools of whatever kind obviously didn’t work on her.
As for Boston University - run from it.


9 posted on 03/23/2019 3:06:45 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Kaslin

Some in society are only best suited for their tipsy top ability in life. AOC’s ceiling is Barmaid.


10 posted on 03/23/2019 3:14:07 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Who did she copy?


11 posted on 03/23/2019 3:33:25 PM PDT by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
The lower percentile. Say, two percent? 😏
12 posted on 03/23/2019 3:36:10 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Kaslin

I’m sick and tired of this ignorant little twitbag! Ugh!


13 posted on 03/23/2019 4:02:36 PM PDT by W. (Natty Light: The beer so nice, you'll taste it twice!)
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has anyone pulled her yearbooks? I find it hard to believe that any school in NY had no latinx, considering it was the height of de-segregation in the North.


14 posted on 03/23/2019 4:14:32 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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Idiot. If she scored in the 99th percentile they were not discriminating against her. They taught her well.

I’ll tell a personal anecdote. I was always a decent kid and I always learned a lot and asked a lot of questions, but I was never really very good at taking orders. In the 8th grade my family moved mid-year so I switched schools. It was traumatic for me, new home, new school, no friends, new teachers. I never did my English homework. Or at least I never turned it in. The teacher gave me a D. At the end of the year though we had a classwide spelling bee, which I won. Figure that out, right?

So then in the 9th grade, high school, because of my D grade I was put in remedial English. Remedial is an understatement. These kids didn’t know the alphabet. The classwork was ridiculously simplistic, I could finish it in minutes and was embarrassed to always the first to complete it so sometimes I would wait for someone else to turn theirs in before I did. I always got it 100% correct. It didn’t take long for the teacher to realize I didn’t belong in remedial, I belonged in Honors. She fought for me because the administration and the honors teachers both didn’t want me to move.

I don’t blame racism, classism, sexism, whatever. I made my own bed by not doing the work, I rebelled, so I got a bad grade. And from that grade the administrators inside a bureaucratic system stereotyped my abilities and put me in the dummy class. What I did learn was that some people go by the book, some people will fight for what is right, some people are status-quo bureaucrats, some are paper-pushers, some are stubborn, some grumble and hold grudges when imposed upon, and rare is the person who actually cares about the fate of another inside these systems. At this point, I truly believe public schools do more harm than good.

I am 100% for school choice. Everyone will come out better including the good teachers out there. The only losers will be the bureaucrats, politicians and the union bosses.


15 posted on 03/23/2019 4:55:51 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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She said at her school she was the only student who “looked like her." She explained that because of this, she was subject to discrimination by the teachers and administration of the school.

In Yorktown 15 years ago? That sounds like . . . shinola.

16 posted on 03/23/2019 6:52:48 PM PDT by SamuraiScot (am)
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“I don’t believe for a minute she ever tested in a 99th percentile.”

Hate to break the news to you, but this chick is absolutely BRILLIANT.

After all, she, almost single-handedly, brought House Speaker NANCY PELOSI TO HER KNEES.

This is serious stuff. The plan was to teach Rep. Omar a lesson about calling rich Jewish donors expecting something in return...well, “Rich Jewish donors expecting something in return”

That was PURE HERESY - and for that Ms. Omar was about to pay, BIG TIME. But guess what happened - AOC said punishing her was NOT ACCEPTABLE, and with that Pelosi folded.

AOC is NOT DUMB - she also brought just about every Democrat candidate to her “Green New Deal”, and yet, to this day, she has yet to tell us how she plans to convince cows to stop farting.

AOC is now RUNNING THE SHOW - she is anything but stupid. Maybe pure evil, but NOT stupid.


17 posted on 03/23/2019 8:00:34 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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You are correct. Intelligence and wisdom are two separate things. Hitler was intelligent, Forest Gump was wise. She is very smart, and evil. She’s on a mission, and it is the folly of her mission that needs to be challenged, not the stupid things she sometimes says, perhaps deliberately so we don’t focus on the real electoral vulnerability of her agenda.


18 posted on 03/23/2019 11:13:49 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

She lends herself to lying quite often so it wouldn’t be surprising if her life stories were fabricated. However the youth don’t care.......she has popularity and that’s all they see and ‘follow’.


19 posted on 03/23/2019 11:19:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: JustaTech

“She is a human chameleon”.....

She’s been taught to feed her followers a ‘perception’ ....all Demorats operate in that vein. Doesn’t take a lot of brains to learn or do that. Her problem is she forgets what she’s been scripted to say so another avenue for her to go is to talk about herself in the best light she can deliver. THAT she is good at developing as she goes.

An example is saying her poor dear daddy had to get up at 5:00 to leave for work........as if that’s something new to the working class of people...it’s not.


20 posted on 03/23/2019 11:26:06 PM PDT by caww
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