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[quote=Anonymous]Let's review.

Second graders take a test that that reflects certain characteristics of their learning abilities and styles, so that the school can teach them in the way that is best suited to each individual. The test results are the most reliable when the question are seen for the first time on test day.

Some adults want their children to have a different result on this test, so they show them questions like those on the test and work out the answers ahead of time. They spend time practicing the questions and how to arrive at the answers.

The test results are most valid when the students have seen the questions for the first time on test day.

The school puts out a statement indicating that it is aware that some students have seen the test question form ahead of test day. and thus, they have changed the test.

Adults proclaim that they can't understand certain words in the statement and that it is okay to show children the questions ahead of time because the school system is unfair, the test is unfair, the test should be a different kind of test anyway because the test makers don't know how to make tests, parents should be able to show children the questions ahead of time because all that matters is that their children get what the parents want their children to have (you know, "I'm out for number one").  Oh, and by the way, everyone involved with the test is racist and classist. [i]And[/i] there is a big conspiracy to keep their kids from getting a good education.

Why even send kids to such a school system? No one requires us to send our kids to public school, so why send them to a school we can't seem to trust?
Why even argue about showing questions to kids ahead of time when we think so little of the school that give the test?

And I'm only listing the highlights here.

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