Boy with brain stem but not a complete brain, forced to take standardized assessment test [View all]

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They made him take the test

Nobody stopped it.

Nobody in Florida with the power to do so stopped the state from forcing a 9-year-old boy named Michael, who was born with a brain stem but not a complete brain, from taking an alternative version of the standardized Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

He is blind and he can’t talk, nor can he understand basic information, but, yes, Michael had to “take” the test.

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Rick Roach, an Orange County, Florida, school board member who was following Michael’s story, confirmed that Michael was in fact forced to take the test, meaning that a state employee sat down and read it to him, as if he could actually understand it.

If this doesn’t turn your stomach, I’m not sure what will.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/05/06/they-made-him-take-the-test/