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I'll pass on your vision of the country as one homogenized land. I prefer a common thread with state variations based upon the wishes of its citizens. You may advocate for English as a national language but if some border state wants to include signs or instructions in Spanish as well, that is their business.
As for your example of someone born in NY, etc. That person has a better idea of the things that they liked and didn't like about the various places they lived. Instead, you want someone in Washington, DC to decide how things should be and everyone else has to accept it. I'm not in favor of that level of tyranny.
As for standardized tests, I'm not the one that said they are worthless. You were the one who wants to change the educational system because: "national standardized tests are worse than useless."
I can always tell when somebody has really gone over the right edge of the cliff when they use the word TYRANNY to describe normal things in American life that are simply decisions the peoples government makes with the input of the citizenry. You don't like the result so then its the over the top hyperbolic TYRANNY. :doh Amazing. :roll:
Standardized tests do NOT have to be worse that useless. They can be useful and valuable tools providing they are true and accurate measurements of what students are actually learning - or not learning - in their curriculum. Today, where that curriculum can vary from state to state and from city to town and even from school to school, it is indeed useless. But at the same time that does not prevent anti-public education critics from using those numbers as a club to try and destroy public education.
Are we one nation or are we not? This is central in deciding not only this but other issues in American life as well.
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