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