Corrective Reading Comprehension Placement Test

[purplekitty627]

She almost said, "This is so we will know where to place you", but instead said, "So we can better help you." She said something like that.

[purplekitty627]

I agree. It seems that educators and the system itself save such higher thinking patterns for only the children identified as "academically gifted." Then they bore the children considered average or below average to death!

[TatooVampire]

...And people wonder why kids are dumber these days than in the past.

Google "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" by former Reagan Admin US Dept of Education Secretary, Charlotte Iserbyte. You can download the book on pdf for free. Parents and students should be outraged by this garbage.