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Test of True Potential.


So potential is now known by standardized tests? Ignoring the skills or effort of the rest? How, may I ask, will numbers decide. Whether the talented and educated are being denied? How can these tests measure true skill? Or passion, desire, as well as true will? It's unfair, to be honest, how many people are rejected. Because they just can't take tests, their true potential undetected. I believe that instead, tests priority should be least. Instead look at involvement, humanitarian efforts towards peace. It ticks me that some goals, no matter how hard you try. Are halted and stopped because your scores weren't high. Let me be cliche for just a few lines. Let's review some of the rejected, for example Einstein. He asked all the questions, wanted to know why. But the tests wanted answers, and just said to him "Goodbye". What makes me tick most is that true talent is hidden. Beneath numbers, statistics, now true futures forbidden.
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