Jeff Linn, in his recent guest editorial on test scores and shell games, hits the nail on the head (August 18). The only thing he left out is why the distressing situation is unlikely to change.
The reason was summed up nicely by a former Xerox exec hired by the Rochester City School District at a session some years ago, during which members of the New York State Board of Regents presented their rationale for the testing culture that Linn outlines. I asked this man why they weren't addressing the systemic poverty that was so clearly a factor in the poor showing of RCSD students on state tests, and he said, "we don't want to go there, do we?"
Apparently we don't.
LEIGH O'BRIEN, GENESEO
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