Obviously see is a distractor question. There is nothing relevant there obviously. Obviously. A and b are plausible. Either of those actually make sense. If you are confused, just Google Google them and they we will make more sense to you shortly. In all in all seriousness we all know probably everyone in this room has taken a test a standardized test at one point or another. There nothing new. Theyve been around for a long time but it seems like were living in a moment where the stakes attached to tests have never been higher. Not only do standardized tests determine a childs future in many cases but they can determine the future of the teacher working with that child the future of principals and administrators the guidance counselor, the gym teacher, the music teacher, the teacher, the art teacher everybodys fate, sometimes the whole schools fate can be bound up with the results of a test or even the fate of all districts. What districts. What is interesting about this moment is that
Kidding. We were planning on doing that. And we saved their teacher and the black Student Union at garfield now is just won the citys human rights award for leading a march first marching to the precinct demanding that black lives matter and then a walk out the day after there was no indictment of Darren Wilson and theyre becoming leaders not just at the school but for the entire city in defining what black lives matter means. Think its all part of this growing struggle. I just want to say one last thing about the transformative nature of these struggles. I want to just end by reading a quick passage if i can. Theres a chapter in here you should not miss which is by a young woman named amber kudlow who went to a school here in new york state. She was the schools valedictorian and does she have the best grades in the highest test scores she was told by the principal she had to give the graduation speech for the school school. She said absolutely not, i dont have anything to say. Im not