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Reply to "Pearson went down for an hour during SOL's today"
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[quote=Anonymous]A statewide outage by for-profit testing giant Pearson meant that tens (or hundreds) of thousands of kids in Virginia today we're stuck staring at computer screens rather than learning, creating, exercising, or doing anything productive. In Fairfax alone, over 14,000 kids were supposed to be testing today. In our school, students couldn't submit their completed tests so they just had to sit there for an hour waiting for the problem to be fixed by Pearson. Teachers were told by the county that, for test security reasons, kids were not allowed to receive instruction or read during the outage. 14,000 hours of instruction lost today just in Fairfax schools thanks to Pearson (to say nothing of the many multiples of that lost to testing in general). Hmmm...I wonder if they will refund Virginia taxpayers any of the millions we're paying them? Somehow I doubt it.[/quote]
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