Comments on: House committee OKs SOL waiver for some schools http://blogs.roanoke.com/politics/2013/01/15/house-committee-oks-sol-waiver-for-some-schools/ Fri, 24 May 2013 18:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Barbara S. http://blogs.roanoke.com/politics/2013/01/15/house-committee-oks-sol-waiver-for-some-schools/#comment-25644 Barbara S. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:28:34 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/politics/?p=16417#comment-25644 The last thing we want to do is get rid of standards. I remember attending a junior high school in the early 70s in Charlotte, NC, where many students couldn’t read, and nobody knew how bad it was.

We don’t need to do away with standardized tests. Our schools are floundering in mediocrity, and our legislators want to shoot the messenger?

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