Success Sucks!
Kids too perfect:
Every student in last year's 11th-grade class at the DeBakey High School for Health Professions passed every section of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.To get around this, they are reporting that only 99% of the students passed.
But officials at the Texas Education Agency are reluctant to report that happy news, fearing it might violate a federal law.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is designed to protect students' privacy. The argument goes that, knowing 100 percent of the students passed a test would let the world know how each student did.
# | February 01, 2005
