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Schools Matter: Texans Finally Waking Up to Perversion of Testing Abuse

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Texans Finally Waking Up to Perversion of Testing Abuse

February 4, 2012

From the New York Times

In Texas, a Backlash Against Student Testing

By MORGAN SMITH

When Christopher Chamness entered the third grade last year, he began to get stomach aches before school. His mother, Edy, said the fire had gone out of a child who she said had previously gone joyfully to his classes.

One day, when he was bored in class, Christopher broke a pencil eraser off in his ear canal. It was the tipping point for Ms. Chamness, a former teacher, and she asked to observe his