Here’s a golden opportunity! Let’s file a class-action suit against Scantron, the computer-testing people used in many of our schools! The damn computers have never worked right when my class of 1985 started with them in 1982. And, they’re still crap! But now, these machines have become too commonplace - without any safeguards to reconcile the Scantron results!
Think of all the students whose grades and self-esteem have been ruined by Scantron! What a crock! - Jinx :mad:
You folks actually went to a school that PAID to use a scantron machine? The HS I went to would buy the scantron forms but then the teachers would make little cutouts they could overlay the scantron sheet over and grade your test.
It ended up saving the school a hell of a lot of money.
I’m a lawyer, but a kid named Kevin Jinx rear ended me a few years ago and destroyed my car, so I’m afraid that you are out of luck due to your username.
I am a lawyer, but spurious class-action suits are not my gig. How about a nice securities offering or a nice mergers and acquisitions deal instead? We can do a hostile deal, then run them into the ground (kind of like the Sprint-MCI deal. . . .).
BTW: I hated those stupid scantron sheets- if you missed one question in the order, the rest of the test was messed up.
I always felt like Tweak from South Park filling one of those forms: “Ah man, I can’t get them out of order, so many bubbles, what number I am on, AHHHHHHHHH I CAN’T TAKE THE PRESSURE!!!”
Nah, insurance covered it. Seeing as it was his first time out behind the wheel without anyone supervising him, and it was his dad’s brand new Delta 88 that he totalled (I had to pull him out from behind the motor), I expect his dad had something to say to him.
For one class I took in Monterey, there was a safeguard in place: the instructor reviewed the answers in class with us (except for the final, which he reviewed on request during his office hours–after the exam was graded, of course). For those questions where the scantron machine didn’t work correctly, the instructor made the appropriate adjustments.