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A Standardized Testing Fairytale « Cooperative Catalyst

A Standardized Testing Fairytale « Cooperative Catalyst

A Standardized Testing Fairytale

One upon a time there were some men who wanted to change the world. The problem was that these men did not feel powerful enough, and needed more power over the people around them. There was one group which kept challenging these men, “those darn liberals.”

“We need to cut taxes!” They screamed as loud as they could. “If we cut taxes for the rich…we mean, everyone, then everyone will have more money to spend,” they reasoned, while the roads, bridges and neighbourhoods continued to decay. However every time they argued for change, some crazy left wing liberal would argue against them.

They’d been trying for decades to dominate the world by controlling popular media, and by buying politicians, but every time they looked around there were still “those darn liberals” challenging their authority. It seemed like they could make hardly any headway in their plans to dominate every aspect of people’s lives because “those darn