Re: high school kids protest
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I don't know about the TAKS, but on the Pennsylvania state assessments I took, I basically screwed around and put no effort into the exam and placed in the top 5% in the state in every category. Now maybe I'm better at that sort of thing than most kids, but no one I knew FAILED it. If it's at all similar in Texas, if someone is failing this kind of test and has a 3.5, then it's not that the test is bad, it's that they should not have a 3.5
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There is no incentive to do well on the PA tests. So many people do not take them seriously. I remember watching a kid fill out his in the pattern of a Christmas Tree and a house and then get up and leave. At our school they let you leave early when you finished that year. I believe they have since fixed that problem.
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