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teachers give tests too - and they know your kid.   There's no magic to standardized tests devised for NCLB --- they are all about keeping testing companies in business and perpetuating the whole NCLB mess.   Is that what you want as a parent?[/quote]What I want as a parent is some uniformity, which comes from standardized outside tests. I want to think that if I move my 6th grader from Stokes to Hardy, he won't be behind. I want to know that if I get relocated to Boca Raton midyear, my 6th grader won't be lost in math or whatever, or repeating material.  You may have seen on this forum complaints that Basis kids who went to walls had to repeat a class due to geometry not being  covered in sequence. I don't want that type of mess.
When your child applies to college, that 4.6gpa counts for little if the SAT doesn't mirror those grades, and there are reasons that colleges look closely at standardized tests as well as those given by individual teachers[/quote]

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