NYC Dept. Of Ed. Wants 50 ‘Forbidden’ Words Banned From Standardized Tests

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Originally Posted by Sundae

We have a couple of reading books that cross the above lines, but we're a different country and they are not in tests.

Yeah, there's definitely a difference between class and test. My son's teacher openly encouraged me to read Neil Gaiman's The Wolves in the Walls to the class, with illustrations that have been known to scare kids as old as 9 or 10. Kids have to be exposed to stuff. But if a child does poorly on this one test, taken one time during the year, the school has money taken away from them. Standardized testing is bullshit.