NO FCAT EXAM, PLEASE!

"great"

"Get back to the basics. I learned without the FCAT and survived."

"werd"

"Fcat sucks and we don't need it"

"As a mother and Grandmother I've worked with our school system,I do not believe the Fcat is a useful tool to grade students.It makes the intellegent and average student stressed and sick, What do you thank it does to the kids who makes C's D's F's..How ca"

"no fcat"

"when i take the fcat i get very nervous and i havt done the best throughout the years becasue of my nervousnes why cant they just let us take regular test. The fcats just see whos school is the smartest and the dumbest that isnt very right i want to stop "

"FCAT causes teachers to "teach to the test." I don't mind standardized tests to see where my child could use some extra help, but when it can be used as a reason for retention it puts too much stress on students, parents and teachers."

"if you pass your classes and fail f-cat then obviously it's the test not your academic ability."

"The FCAT is the biggest waste of time and it takes up months of preparation, i didnt learn a single thing from it, and i'd like to hear from someone who did. Whoever started this knows what they're doing."

"why should the fcat decide whether we pass or not a pefectly b average kid or c average kid could easily not pass because they got a Level 1, i mean whats the point of the fcat if they want, we students can still take the Norm Reference comparing us to ot"

"I have a son in elementary school. His teachers abhor having to concentrate on FCAT specific lessons, the stress on the kids at this point in their lives is unnecessary. Our school system is good, don't manipulate it, just fund it."

"NO TO THE FCAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"it is just too stressful on the the kids"

"I've seen my 15 year old take the FCAT through the years and the schools make it a very stressful event. By the very nature of Governor Bush's plan it is designed to stress out schools, which in turn stresses out the teachers, which in turn stresses out t"

"I agree with this petition. The FCAt stresses out students and made prior success seem of little importance. This test has a trickle down affect. Testing is becomming more and more important in the lower grades because it helps determine if the student wi"

"I feel that this test is way to much pressure on our children; I watched for 2 weeks as my 9 year old daughter worried herself sick about this test."