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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
For all of the fall and part of the spring semester, school is nothing but a test prep for the FCAT. Administrations live and die on FCAT scores.
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It's terrible. My sister's alumnae chapter is about 95% teachers, and they say their hands are basically tied when it comes to a curriculum for those grades. They are essentially teaching them to take a test, which is relatively new--I graduated in the late 1990s, and I never took the FCAT. I had to take the HSCT, which was a joke.
Oh, a lot of people from other countries think that Americans are naive, loud and stupid. The fact that there are so many embarassing American tourists doesn't help matters much.
I for one don't want to be seen as a dumb American--we used to play "Spot the American!" in big tourists spots because we're oh so obvious.
