I've seen the tears in kids. I've seen them frustrated. I see the kids go into seizures because of the anxiety of that test.
It makes us look like we're not a superior school district when in reality we are.
There are a variety of ways of assessing kids' skills that aren't necessarily a formal assessment.
We're neck and neck. We're doing cutting-edge things in our district.
It's hard to watch them go through that test that before they even go through sets them as a failure and I resent it. I don't think they've (CSAP tests) done a single good thing for them.
You can work on it, you can try, but it's not possible. They have limitations.
There are several students who have severely low external cognitive functioning skill levels.
