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Originally posted by Tim Walsh
I'm not against standardized testing, but there are problems with it.

For instance half of Steff's kids are on a first grade reading level when she first got them. These are 13-18 year old deaf or hard of hearing kids who's first language isn't English, it's American Sign Language (which has a vastly different sentence structure) Do you punish their math teacher when they fail because they can't read?
Of course you do, you wife works for the government and you want them to be reasonable and make sound decisions. Thats never going to happen.

Why are they not labeled learning impaired and made exempt from the test?
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