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FCAT Nightmares Turn Schools into Halls of Fear

I have a daughter in third grade, and we have just discovered she has ADD. She is quiet, polite, hard working, creative, and artistic. She is one of those kids that gets frustrated when she doesn't understand something, and gives up. Her reading is improving and her math needs work, we just moved here from New Jersey, and I am going crazy, even her teacher and principal agree that the "FCAT'S" should be done away with. They are putting so much pressure on these "CHILDREN" and more stress to an already stressful world. The children in Florida have to worry about the sexual predators that live so close by, and now they have to worry about a stupid test. A test that will determine whether or not they will be going on with their friends to the next grade. Now they have to worry about how many people will make fun of them, and call them names (stupid). Had we known about this ridiculous test, I would have never moved here, but now my county has taken the huge impact fees from the building of our new home, to build more halls of fear.

We must do everything in our power to do away with this test. Let's not give up.

January Hunter
gottadance142@earthlink.net

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Last modified: 06/15/08