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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 3rd grader uses the keyboard daily so that isn't an issue. And why on earth are your kids "stressed out" by testing? Perhaps you are projecting. Considering they will be subject to these tests now and throughout their entire educational career you might want to consider homeschooling.[b] In high school they will not be able to graduate without them[/b]. k

So I ask again, what are you hoping to accomplish? Instilling fear in your child for your own political grandstanding? It isn't to the benefit of your child.[/quote]

Then more of half of American kids won't graduate. The tests are designed for the majority of kids to fail. [/quote]

The tests are designed to test kids against life skills that they would need to be marketable and to survive in the outside world.  These days more and more blue-collar jobs are being outsourced or eliminated by automation, and even some white collar jobs are seeing the same fate.  If your kid is going to be failing these tests, he's probably also going to be failing LIFE.  You are setting kids up for lifelong failure by not raising the bar.  There's a lot more at stake here than some test - or even some teacher's job for that matter.  You people need to pull your heads out of the sand and understand the future.[/quote]

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