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mknod · 3916 days ago · link · · parent · post: I opted my kids out of standardized tests. Then I learned a thing or two.
Wow I never had thought about it in this way before but I think you're on to something. I wonder, even if subconsciously, advertising is doing this to us. I appreciate that I am more connected and can make choices about what I purchase based on the practice of company xyz but am I really choosing the lesser of two evils or am I just more willing to participate in some evil rather than some other? In the article she even talks about how the principal threatened that the student "might feel weird, being different from all the other kids." There is definitely a not so subtle tone of guilt that the school was trying to place on the parent here. I am glad she stuck to her guns.