I've been reflecting the last few days on the dazzling stupidity of "accountability" as it is currently interpreted. There is so much damned emphasis on measuring and measuring, and goddamn baselines, that nothing can ever get done.
Baseline measures take forever; and in the meantime, we don't want to start anything, by god, cause if we do, we might adversely affect the baseline measure and then we'll have to start again. So we wait and wait and try to get a perfect measure in an imperfect world, and in the meantime... students don't learn, greenhouse gases ruin our atmosphere, our government wastes dollar after dollar on studies to study the results of the studies.
Ugh. Rant, rant.
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