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Instead of testing kids to see if their schools get funded, we should test to see who lives.

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:30 PM
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Instead of testing kids to see if their schools get funded, we should test to see who lives.
Right? I mean, right?

If we're gonna test kids for this "no child left behind" evil bullshit, which defunds schools with low scores, why not just test the kids to see if they can live?

Every year, we just skim the bottom ten percent of the US school population. Or twenty percent - why not? Take those bottom feeders, and wipe 'em out. I mean, for fuck's sake, we're totally overpopulated anyway.

If schools aren't functioning, we don't need to worry about defunding, because they'll be out of students in a couple years.

And think of how competitive we'd be as a nation in 20 years - if we start with first graders, and say there's 6 million across the nation (which is probably fairly close to accurate) and take out 20% every year, by the time of 12 grade graduation, there will be 515,000 left - the 515,000 smartest, the top 8% of the original class.

And to keep people from gaming the system, we'd have to make it an executable offense to drop out of school or get expelled.

Home schooling would no longer be an option, either.

Is this the Republican wet dream, or what? Except for the no home schooling option, I bet they'd love this idea. Certainly the Freepers would. At least, for the first couple years, until they realize that it's their kids getting wiped out because they can't pass the science, grammar, or logic sections of the tests.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-26-07 10:35 PM
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1. Jonathan Swift, is that you back from the dead?
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