What a Wonderful World...Or Is It?

It seems that Utah's Common-Core aligned test results have been released and the state is doing only slightly better than NY.   Fewer than 50% of the state's population is passing.  

In my mind, it is not the students who are failing for lack of effort.   It is the "reformers" who have failed for lack of something else.  The students are their victims and the chosen weapon is standards that have been set ridiculously high and out of reach at this point in time.  If some "reformers" have a point to prove here, it is their own incompetence.  

What a Wonderful World (Revised and Dedicated to Ed. "Reformers" Everywhere)

I see scans of green, red F grades, too,

I see InBloom, for me and you

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world.

I see kids are blue, and flags are white,

The bright blessed peace, split by fruitless fight

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,

Are also on the faces of Regents going by

I see Tisch shaking hands, sayin', "How did you do?"

She's really sayin', "I Failed you."

I hear students cryin'. I watch them stress.

They'll learn no more than is on their test

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

Yes, I think to myself

What a wonderful world