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Been dismal. it's an emotional one when the parents and students get a grade when you're not as smart as you think you are. then the common core tests critical thinking, more than filling in the bubble. those tests cost pennies and still at that cost, $1.7 billion to do that kind of fill in the bubble test. imagine what it's going to be when they have to review a test where kids are writing out answers in essay form. the money is going to go through the roof. they are trying to figure out how do we pay for it and make sure our kids are ready to take those tests. >> thank you so much from the e...

>> yes. my wife teaches two classes so pertinent, a.p.u.p. history and u.s. history. you know the students that will be in a.p.u.s. history because of how much it costs. in d.c. history it gets a lot of kids. she says, i can't stand it when people denigrate these kids from the poor neighborhoods. she says kids do things the other kids could not accomplish. latino kids have to act as primary translators. they have survival techniques. they are the students most disrespected by the mainstream media and so-called reformers. >> and you can't pick up those skills on a standardized bubble test. >> i...

There is so much in this country that revolve around tests. your s.a.t. scores follow you for your life. >> if you ignore that truth that s.a.t.s are important no one else is. if you decide as a parent that i will not engage in this kind of brainwashing, your kid will not get in college because the only thing you have left is the s.a.t. you can't just say little joe de rosa went on a lot of field trips. >> i did. >> as much as people can complain about this, no one has come up with a concrete solution around it. at the end of the day we need national standards to report and the only way to do ...