Reading the information on adding testing for 5th and 8th grade to determine if they are ‘ready’ to move on , not based on any standard of learning or curriculum seems out of date and more harmful to our students than helpful.   Already we have iready which kids speed through, as well as the fact that implementing it for this academic year is irresponsible considering parents have no real information on something that could severely impact our students and schools.   While my preference would be to not implement this at all, there at least needs to be a longer time for parents to ask questions and understand more about it.  

Respectfully,

Lauren Thorne