Bonni Sollars

Where I live, for high school, there is no need to test. At the
community college, if you want to enter a specific program, they test and
place you according to what you need to take for the career you are
seeking. There is also the g.e.d. course there, which my son wants to
take when he is sixteen, so he can say he got it, not because it is
required. We have to take a test every two or three years so the school
district will allow us to keep homeschooling. I can't help but ask, why
don't you do that for kids in p.s.? My husband asked me about tests, and
I quoted John Holt from "How Children Learn", page 293. "We do not need
to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What
we need to do, and all we need to do, is bring as much of the world as we
can into the school and the classroom; give children as much help and
guidance as they need and ask for; listen respectfully when they feel
like talking; and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the
rest."
Bonni

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