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[quote=Anonymous]Whoa - this thread has been interesting!

1.  I agree it is obnoxious that the PARCC test appears (according to folks on this thread - but I haven't otherwise looked into it)to be an enrichment opportunity for a for-profit company (shades of De Vos - shudder).  I don't like the incentives there (for a company to push testing to make money).
2.  I'd like to hear more about why ten hours of testing a year is so bad?  My view so far has been that there is a lot of testing in life (even as an adult, "testing" exists, just in different forms, e.g., preparing for an appellate oral argument!), and maybe it is not so bad to get early experience with it, and learn how to deal with the stress.
3.  At least at my kid's school - Brent - there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of teaching to the test.  Kids appear to be doing lots of interesting things and learning lots of important stuff.  Plenty of field trips and projects.  I don't know that ten more hours of field trips or projects instead of ten hours of testing would be better for the kids' development.[/quote]

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