On This D.C. School System Quiz, No One Succeeds

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A) Explain how laws are made in the city.

B) Describe the role of the Board of Education in setting educational policy and school funding.

C) Die trying.

D) All of the above.

Question Four: A reliance on standardized tests as a measure of educational achievement, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind law, has resulted in:

A) Students memorizing factoids instead of learning to think for themselves.

B) Teaching to the tests.

C) Schools that produce people for existing slots in the nation's economic structure -- with corrupted urban school systems reliably turning out thousands of candidates for prison factory jobs each year.

D) All of the above.

Question Five: Because a high-quality education helps students cope with change and contradictions in the real world, public schools in the Washington area require all graduates to know:

A) Why they can't smoke marijuana but their teachers can get drunk as a skunk.

B) Why a drive-by shooting in the District is wrong but a flyover bombing in Iraq is all right.

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