F-bombs for 11-year-olds: some versions of STAAR test contain obscenity, TEA apologizes

[TexasTowelie]

Expletives are not the ideal to advance the education of 10 and 11-year-old students.

But that's what happened in at least one Texas school district.

On April 10, during a STAAR test administered by the Texas Education Agency, a fifth grade student in Lumberton Independent School District called over a school administrator, according to the TEA.

School administrators are not supposed to discuss the test questions with participants.

But, as it turns out, one image on a reading comprehension exercises contained the F-word. The obscenity appeared in a passage with embedded pictures of what appears to be an unknown graffiti park, according to the TEA.

Read more: https://www.lmtonline.com/houston/article/TEA-STAAR-Test-F-bomb-obscenity-13813449.php

[LuckyLib]

1. It's Texas: "We don't need no stinkin' proofreading!"