> those tests are consequential to the kids future Most of them aren't. Especially in college. > lets be real: they're probably not Welcome to the REAL probl

> those tests are consequential to the kids future Most of them aren't. Especially in college. > lets be real: they're probably not Welcome to the REAL problem in education. We fight wars over the right to education, and then when we have it, we piss all over it? > You're probably lucky if even %10 are there because they want to be there. If we stopped obsessing over the damn tests, we might make some progress on this. It's a failing of culture and of teaching that students don't want to learn. I'd much rather have a country full of people who enjoy learning than people who learn only at metaphorical gunpoint, and spend their lives trying to avoid it. If they're a couple years behind at 18, so be it. I'll take the learners at 25 any day.