Parents protest surge in standardized testing

[Moonwalk]

3. About Friggin' Time! I Sympathize with the kids, not the parents, they should have protested this...

...from the start! It's a racket, pure and simple, thought up by George Bush and his cronies to make it look like he was pro-education and give all sort of money to testing companies. Yet another way to funnel tax payer's money into other's pockets while keeping it from where it really belongs--in the pockets of teachers, for example. Or into fixing up the school, ect.

Any quick and easy solution (just take a test!) is suspect and parents should have been suspect from day one. They weren't. And a whole crop of kids that went through years of this, are left cheated of a real education.

I'm glad the parents have finally woken up, but I'm pissed it took them this long to do so. It should have never gotten to this point.