My Name Is Luka And Those Who Are Ostensibly Here To Protect Me Honestly Believe Standardized Tests Amount To A Form Of Child Abuse

When standardized tests are really cooking, they are exactly like child abuse:

City seventh-graders who took high-stakes state exams yesterday were stumped when several questions in their test booklets failed to match the answer key.

Five of the multiple-choice questions on the reading test asked students to select the answer from options A, B, C or D. But when the 65,000 kids went to darken the bubbles on their answer sheets, the only options were F, G, H or J.

The error confused many already stressed-out kids and infuriated teachers.

“How did this get through?” said a Brooklyn teacher, who asked not to be named. “It’s really unfair to the children who have to take this test.”

Anti-testing advocates said the screwup was yet another example of why the exams should not be used to evaluate children’s performance in school.

“This is child abuse,” said Jane Hirschmann of Time Out from Testing, who demanded the test results be scrapped. “These tests are deeply flawed.”

See also: Time Out From Testing.org