As destructive as the EQAO’s tests are to the school system, you local schools, individual students and common sense, now it is being used to rank schools in a socially destructive way.
Check out http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/sift/index.asp where you can rank all the schools in the province using the fantasy that the results are meaningful.
But you do not need an expensive test and web page to rank schools like this.
Just move into a socially upscale community and you can guarantee that the numbers will be high. When you are looking at standardized testing, you are looking at the relative wealth of the community it serves not the quality of its schools.
You can excuse the narrow minded right wing Fraser Institute for buying into this with its on its site http://www.fraserinstitute.org/reportcards/schoolperformance/, it is part of their social mandate to dump on public services.
But what is really pathetic is that this is a government of Ontario site.
Your tax dollar, working for you.
You can sign the People for Education letter against this at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=2gDbDb40viR8TodiNiXXFg_3d_3d
