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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Until the tests are free and students receive equitable preparation for them, and are not run by a “non-profit” grossing millions of dollars/year, they won’t be comparable to European high school exit exams.[/quote]
Tests and prep are free, in multiple languages. Advertised all over schools and from teachers and to parents at mtgs, via handouts and emails and phone calls.

Europe has serious (and free) merit tests every couple years of schooling and rigid tracking for access to A Levels and similar and certainly for university and majors. Uniforms help too, as does time tested curricula and tests.  They do not do anywhere near the progressive experimental new math or reading or whatever approaches as here- here’s riven by common core standards or politics or a big lucrative curriculum business of ex teachers and admin selling to their former districts.

I’d be for testing too. Similar to India’s IIt and Japans Todai/kyodai, the Russian system too. No one else is watering down k-12 education and holding back its brightest like America.

Please talk to some friends who are teachers. Get informed about how things actually are.[/quote]

Most of this is gibberish but I’ll bite. If you think teachers want even more standardized testing you’re completely wrong. [/quote]

Wasn’t the original question that someone didn’t want high school exit exams like in Europe until there is “equity” in test costs and test prep?

That’s already offered to FARMS or any student that asks for it. So what’s your point? Face it, the average k-12 student in America is below grade level in math and reading English. It’s been that way for a a couple decades.  Curricula, teachers, students and parents all own that. [/quote]

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