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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How will your DC get into college? Without testing? What about when in college? No finals? No bar exam? Oh, yeah, I can see them just letting your DC operate on people without taking and passing any exam. Blurry vision? Oh, you'll need an eye test, right? Wrong! Can't have my DC all stressed out about failing that test as well. Harden the f up. This whole world has tests waiting for your DC. Get real.[/quote]

Funny, back in the day when I was in public school, we had much less standardized testing and somehow I managed to do well on the college boards, the GRE and my drivers test[/quote]

Which "day"  was that? I was in elementary school 37 years ago and we had standardized tests, Iowa Test of Basic Skills and the California Achievement Tests, the tests took a few days.[/quote]

Anyone who went to public school has experienced standardized testing -- some privates too -- but they weren't as punishing as tests are today.   If you don't want to believe that, fine, but opting out of some of today's ridiculous testing is not going to hobble kids' ability to get by in the modern world.  It's just not.

It's a very weak argument to say that standardized testing in grade school on up is needed for people to successfully handle testing requirements after high school graduation. [/quote]

But it is needed to get an objective read on the quality of education and improvement or backsliding in that education. I have lived in DC a very long time and all the while the system was falling apart the school system administration, mayor, etc were whistling past the graveyard pretending like everything was fine.  [/quote]

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