Word: criminatex
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...hand, that flat rule regulations raised all the usual hue and cry about standardized tests' imprecision and inherent unfairness; the rule dis-criminatex against inner-city students whose vocabularies were different, against students from poorer families, and so forth. But the more pressing problem turned out to be one of mere practicality. So many students failed to pass seventh grade that the already crowded facilities became almost useless; and a substantial number of students, though tested several years in a row, failed to pass. The presence of 17- and 18-year-old seventh-graders was a dramatic condemnation...
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