Should Legislators be required to take the FCATs?
Scott Maxwell reports in the Orlando Sentinel...
It's the "Leave No Legislator Behind" act. And if voters approve it, legislators would be forced to take -- and pass -- the same 10th-grade FCATs they require of all high-school students.
"I just think we're seeing too much emphasis on this test," said Dr. Steven Rosenberg, the West Palm Beach dermatologist who's mounting the unfunded and uber-long-shot effort to get this on the ballot.Quite simply, Rosenberg believes many politicians can't do what they ask of high-schoolers.
So how would your politicians fare?
Well, House Majority Leader Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, said such a proposal would hurt those who are already suffering.
And by that, he meant the Democrats.
"The numbers are 84-36 in the House," Gardiner said. " I'm not sure the Democrats could afford any more losses."
Actually, Rosenberg doesn't think he'd be able to kick them out if they failed -- just make them take it over and over.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 9:23 AM
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4 Comments:
I am not sure what the procedure is now, but I think it would be an excellent idea if every educator was required to take the test.
As far as legislators taking the test, I am not sure that it would have any real purpose. I believe it would validate what we probably already know. Those who are not up to par would fail and those in the other sector would pass. What could be done with those figures would not really give us any information that we need.
If our politicians can't pass this test, they need to resign their elected posts voluntarily. This test is not that difficult! I don't want anyone in a leadership role that doesn't have enough intelligence to pass this test.
GWB surely would not pass it.
GWB got into Harvard the same way he got out of going to Vietnam. Do you think that moron could have entered Harvard if he was an ordinary kid, son of a working class family? Only if he was a prodigy of some kind.
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