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The advantage of having ONE group of people keeping track of ALL the test score results of
ALL American public school students, is that the information if being collated over ALL
American students.

Those voters who wanted the Department of Education (over all students) eliminated seem to want
the LOCAL version to simply be a "portal" that allows parents of school kids in one single
state, to view the test results of their kids, in the context of only students in their state.
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I understand that there are many parents of school kids, who THINK that their kids
are better achievers that almost all other school kids. Somewhere, I heard that that
happens. But IT IS USEFUL for parents to understand WHEN their kids are under-achieving,
and need to have remedial teaching efforts kick in.

It is also helpful for parents who are sending their kids to RELIGIOUS schools, to know
when their kids are not deemed competent in some area of learning that is covered by the
non-religious schools, but not as well (or at all) by RELIGIOUS schools.

I like the idea of parents being able to choose which school their kid goes to. BUT...
I don't like the idea of every parent thinking that they have some civil right to determine the
curriculum in the school they send their kids to. AND THAT, INVOLVES REAL IDEOLOGICAL
CONFLICTS.

This is the same CONFLICT that is involved whan some people in a congregation think
that they have the RIGHT to determine the theology that a new pastor will teach, or not
teach (even though many pastors have a much superior education in critical Bible study
skills).

This tacit praise of amateurism, often tends to favor those who are educated. And those who
are educated are often (obviously) those who have embraced the intellect and education. This
means that congregations which foster lifelong learning, are often MUCH BETTER SITUATED
TO DEFEND THEIR BELIEFS (such as in a forum for Christian apologetics), than congregregations
that embrace conspiracy theories or not-reading and life styles that do not involve lifelong
education. Them's the Apples!
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What the issue of the recent Department of Education debate is REALLY about, is whether (local)
parents of religious students will HAVE TO deal with the debate/conflict over what RELIGIOUS
parents of students of students THINK IS IMPORTANT for their kids to learn, and be able to explain,
and defend (perhaps). Many parents who attend a Christian school, couldn't be bothered with
working their way through this debate. And this burden of indifferenece of the parents, works
itself down into a type of epigenetic lack of expression of "religious genes" (to make up a new
term), that would probably be APPALLING to earlier generations of American Christians.
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I would say simply to these parents...

STOP DEMANDING THAT GOD SHOULD STOP BOTHERING US ALL,
BY STOP REQUIREING THAT WE (PARENTS AND KIDS) STOP
WORKING THROUGH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE HISTORIC
CHRISTIAN FAITH!!!

Historic, orthodox Christianity requires that we honetly face up to some conflict
over intellectual topics. No one has invented a "lint-free" orthodox Christian
theology yet, and we are really dumb and naive when people run around claiming that
they have. Or worse, claiming that lint doesn't exist.