May 15, 2009 10:20 AM
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A bunch of kids took tests to succeed in life. These tests were lost and now the parents of those kids are very angry because, as their progeny might say, "a risible misprision" has occurred.
As the City Room has it:
Some 60 tests for the city's Gifted and Talented programs, taken by pre-kindergartners and kindergartners at Public School 9 on the Upper West Side, went missing, angering parents who are concerned that they will not get the scores in time to visit the programs for which their children qualify.
Angry parents have issued bromides excoriating the malfeasance of the Department of Education. They are, correctly, upset for if their children are doomed to remain amongst the hoi polloi of the Upper West Side, they'll no doubt begin a knotty and untoward path from P.S. 9 straight to Hunter or even perhaps CUNY. The horror! The horror!
One parent, Joseph Clancy, bitched, "Our kids are four years old, and one thing we know is that our kids, who lose things all the time, did not lose these results." Hmm, such observational wit. It must be genetic. And this brings us to our final point. Not quoted, but certainly existent: Parents who know their kids aren't that talented or that gifted. Right now, they're breathing a huge sigh of relief that the proof of their child's meanness will remain, hopefully, forever lost. Thus allowing them to operate with plausible deniability that their babies are geniuses for the rest of their lives. Because, really, that's what child-rearing is all about anyway.
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