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<p>You apparently missed an important word in my message: “objective quality,” which is what these phony rankings purport to measure.</p>
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<p>I have working definitions: a good school for an individual student is one that prepares that student well for life; a bad school for an individual student is one that fails to prepare that student well for life.</p>
<p>And since no school succeeds with all its students, and no school fails with all its students, to declare a school “good” or “bad” in a collective sense is nonsense - just as nonsensical as to declare one school is “better” than another school.</p>