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Monday, April 17, 2006

States Help Schools Hide Minority Scores - Yahoo! News

States Help Schools Hide Minority Scores - Yahoo! News: "'I can't believe that my child is going through testing just like the person sitting next to him or her and she's not being counted,' said Angela Smith, a single mother. Her daughter, Shunta' Winston, was among two dozen black students whose test scores weren't broken out by race at her suburban Kansas City, Mo., high school."

Dear Ms. Smith, your daughter is a "her." So the next time you talk of someone sitting next to your daughter, you can say that they are sitting next to "her" and not "him or her" because that makes it sound like you're not sure of your daughter's gender. Geez.

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