That sends a huge message to the students in districts that are not performing. It inflicts a self-fulfilling prophecy on those districts motivationally.

In general, I think mastery testing inflicts a lot of anxiety on students.

That sends the message that some things are more important than safety. That's not true.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

There's still an element of the self-fulfilling prophecy here, in that you're seeing people jump into a rally just because it's the end of the year and we're supposed to have a rally. I wouldn't be surprised if we're lollygagging around here until the end of the year.

The idea is that where disorder occurs ... that sends the message that this area is not being monitored.