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Dear Mr. Fisch I agree with the point you make in the end of your blog “The CSAP is dead, long live the CSAP (err TCAP)” just like the CSAP all these test can’t tell us everything we need to know about a student. CSAPs just tell us what we might know about a particular subject but not if the student is a good learner, or if they are willing to take on a challenging problem. I guess they do show if you are good at problem solving by the math portion because math is a problem solving subject. I think the true program is that it shows no value to a student who may not excel in English, Math, and Science. There many other ways that a student can be successful. I think the problem with that is how you test for that while not bringing down the scores of those that do excel at math and science. I really don’t think that any one particularly test can grade a student on everything.     

Dear Denver Post: No More Horoscopes

Dear Mr.Fisch

                I read your article “Dear Denver Post: No More Horoscopes” and I disagree, although I do not personally believe in Horoscopes I still feel that the Denver Post should not change it. I think they should keep it in the Denver Post for three reasons, first one fourth of the population is a decent portion of the population, more people probably read Horoscopes then just that one fourth, and the Denver Post is built to make money. One fourth is a minority but that doesn’t mean that is not a lot of people. America’s population is three hundred million give or take one fourth of that is 75,000,000 people, what I am trying to say is that one fourth is not a small portion when we talk about people. Another reason is that even though one fourth of people believe horoscopes don’t mean one fourth of people read horoscopes. So there might be a larger amount of people who enjoy the horoscopes. The Denver Post goal is to make money not to educate; we live in America that’s just the name of the game. And the fact is that horoscopes have been around for a long time so they must be popular and making money or newspapers would not include them. Maybe one day somebody will open up the news paper to read the horoscopes and something about a breakthrough in wind energy will catch their eye. That is just another aspect to consider.

                                                                Jon D

Oh and right after I read your article I read my first horoscope kinda ironic “ others make demands, and you need to make a statement about what you think….”