And that's where this comes from. It came out of the 1999 Legislature, where Brady Adams, Senate President at the time, said we don't know how good our schools are doing. And that's what this whole effort is all about. It's sort of placing everyone. We're trying to place the kid and the grade and the school and the school system in a scale of 1-10 or however you want to rate it as satisfactory or unsatisfactory, and with education it's almost an impossible task.
Every child knows that grades are arbitrary.
Even if they're based on the standard test, they're arbitrary decisions as to what the questions on the test will be. They're not that arbitrary. If you happen to know the answers to the questions and then you get a pretty good grade. If you don't know, you flunk. That seems fairly straightforward.