Boy with brain stem but not a complete brain, forced to take standardized assessment test

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14. It might not cause psychological harm to this particular student...

...but if they are willing to go through such a silly endeavor for a child as profoundly disabled as this, there is no guarantee they won't do similar things for other disabled children, who as a result may suffer distress or self-esteem issues that we can't predict. This story indicates that laws need to be changed to better acknowledge and accommodate for the fact that there are profoundly disabled children who need an individual set of goals drawn up that allows them maximum quality of life, rather than uniform educational achievements that may be totally irrelevant to them. We can acknowledge that without necessarily throwing out standardized testing entirely.