the GREat rant.

[found as image when searching "GRE criticism." Apropos.]

I am also bitter. Check out the deep-sea news blog's post on the GRE and you will too. Is nothing sacred from becoming a corporation any longer? Or is the corporation now sacred. But I am not just bitter from my feeling of being used by corporations like this, or that the GRE is antiquated and unsuccessful in doing what it claims, but becasue educational institutions, both public and private, while knowing all of these things, still require it. And while New York State took steps to regulate their practices in their public primary schools, they still subject their students to do them, and their places of higher learning require the test for admission. Not all states, programs, or schools do, but most. And why? And if certain schools use the scores to toss out a percentage of applicants before looking over any further information about the applicant, are they not necessarily throwing out a student who could bring honor and achievement to the school? The answer is yes. What is education anymore? And how are we measured by it and for it?

I feel this is my least intellectual posting, but it is one that houses some deep-seeded frustrations. Further to come, is a brief analysis on class-status and the ability to not just perform on the test, but to take it at all.