Letter To The Editor

4 Hatzfira
Holon, Israel
68972
September 4, 2013

The editor
"Haaretz"
21 Zalman Shoken
Tel Aviv, Israel
66532

Dear editor,


Last week you published an article about meizav tests, saying they should be canceled.
In my opinion, standardized tests are an important tool.

In the article Yair Lapid said that standardized tests don’t measure intelligence and I agree with that. However, the thing that they do measure and is not less important, is the efforts of the students to succeed. Most of the times students who work hard and do their best,  succeed and have higher grades, and that thing(מיותר) in my opinion is the most important thing to measure.  It says(ww.) that the person who did the standardized test and succeeded in them is diligent and a hard worker that would do his best in everthing in life.

Standardized tests give to students hard time(phr.), teachers and schools who don’t succeed in them(This sentence is incomplete), (Start a new sentence) therefore, the results should stay in the hands of (the) ministry (of) education that should use it to improve and support the less successful schools and students, and by that improve the education system and use those tests in a beneficial way. I Hope you got my point of view.

Sincerely yours,

Danny Cohen 

This is much better. Well done.
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Daphna