Test Prep/Diagnostics Gone Wild?

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. I was assigned Great Expectations to read over the summer before my first year of HS.

I read it in the morning. I read it at night. I read it when we went on vacation for a week in CT. I worried about getting it read constantly because I was starting a new school for HS and didn't want to be singled out for not having it read.

I was up to page 52 by the time school started in September. ( True... I had two other books to read but I didn't read them either. ) The paperback copy I had was about 375 pages in length, if memory serves.

Relax. It's THEM, not you. See if you can opt-out your child from testing. Ask the principal. If he/she says no ( and it may very well be a lie) check the net for opt-out groups like Time Out From Testing and/or Change the Stakes.

>>>unless it is to enrich the private companies selling them.>>>> You answered your own question. Everything... absolutely everything educational in the Obama era is $$$profit-driven.