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“Tell us a secret” – another creepy test question

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“Tell us a secret” – another creepy test question

The skeletons are flying out of the test publishers’ closets, and parents are getting angrier and angrier.
This week it was an essay question on the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge, which asked students to write about a secret that was hard to keep.
According to the AP story, the dad who learned about this question from his twin 9-year-old sons said, “All of the