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knitter4democracy

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3. It's the dang tests.

Reply to saras (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 08:30 PM

Apr 2012

They kill all the good stuff since the graders will grade down or not grade at all if someone's essay is outside the box. So, we train high school students to write essays that will get high marks, but those are crap.

I hate the fracking tests.

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