Testing Outrages

It's hard to imagine a worse idea than color-coding students' test scores, given the fact they don't accurately reflect their abilities.

Naturally two moronic principals thought it was a good idea.  It was later ditched:

Anaheim Union High School District on Thursday killed a controversial incentive program that assigned students color-coded ID cards and planners based on state test scores, required those who performed poorly to stand in a separate lunch line and awarded the others with discounts.

But the district pledged to continue providing incentives under a new system.

The program, in place at Cypress and Kennedy high schools, was designed to urge students to raise scores on the California Standards Tests, but it also raised concern among parents and students who said it illegally revealed test scores and embarrassed those who didn't do well. 

The principals should be demoted for proposing and instituting such an idiotic idea.
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