What Brevard County has to put up with.

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Board member: Test text is leftist
BY Megan Downs
FLORIDA TODAY •
October 6, 2008

A Brevard County School Board member objects to an FCAT practice test given to some third-graders, saying it pushes a "socialist" agenda.

The test, designed by private publisher Macmillan/McGraw-Hill and approved by the Florida Department of Education, asks students to read about city residents working in a community garden.

Board member Amy Kneessy called the subject too controversial for such young children who can't thoroughly question what they read.

"These gardens do not belong to any one person," the passage says. "They belong to the whole neighborhood . . . People of all ages come together in the
gardens. Side by side, they work to help keep their city green . . ."

It then addresses a proposed development that would take away the garden.

"It's saying that needs of the community override a person's constitutional rights," Kneessy said. "It had a very strong social message, and that's not what the test is about and that is not what reading comprehension is about.

idiocy in its entirety:

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081006/NEWS01/810060319/1006

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1. By that logic, so are public schools

so WTF is this asswipe doing on a school board? Why doesn't he just homeschool?