On 29 Feb 2004 07:42:11 -0800, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Gunner says...

Ive never claimed the Feebs should control schools, only require
nationwide standards and give accreditation for those who comply, and
remove accredation from those who fail to follow those standards.

Heh. The second part of your post disagrees with the first
part. If you set the standards and apply/deny accreditation
at a federal level, you *are* installing federal control.
That's how it will play out. In very short order certification
will be *required*.

Jim

Standards are not controls. Accreditation is a form of control. If you
refuse to graduate students who can pass standardized testing, you
loose your accreditation. No parent will send their child to an
inferior school if they can help it, when there are others on hand. If
your school cannot meet the simple requirement of graduating students
able to pass the national standardized testing..then the funding
agency can say the vouchers are not to be used at that school.

I do however agree that all politics HAVE to be kept out of the design
of the Nationwide Standardized Academic testing Standard. It has to be
uniform, and apply to each and every normal school, be it private or
public.

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem.
To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized,
merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas