Reply #38: I am really frustrated right now..

[CoffeeCat]

...because people who have not read the entire thread--and do not understand the issue--are railroading this
thread with worthless, irrelevant arguments that have NOTHING to do with the OP.

I CLEARLY stated MANY TIMES that the TESTS are the Iowa Test of Basic Skills----the government-mandated tests. The tests
ARE NOT the ACT or SAT and *CLEARLY* I am not suggesting that high-school students should get college credit for college classes
when they fail to pass the tests that are part of that college class.

You are suggesting that I said this. I clearly DID NOT.

I am talking about the standardized tests that have NOTHING to do with any college class. These are the annual standardized
tests that the government mandates that all students take (elementary through high-school grades). Students are tested on basic
skills (math, reading, social studies and science) and they are never assigned a grade or get credit for the test. They are just tested.
Then the government uses the scores as part of the No Child Left Behind program--to determine how students are performing. And funding
can be cut from schools where these standardized test scores are low.

To reply TWICE and to go off on some tangent that is totally irrelevant and confuses everyone---is frustrating. Please read the OP for more
than five seconds---before you go down a road that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the OP.