NO FCAT EXAM, PLEASE!

"Children have enough stress dealing with social and various family issues that arrive, it is disgusting to add more pressure to a young child. To base an entire year on learning on one test is repulsive. Some children do not test well under this kind of p"

"NO FCAT PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"WHEN THE STUDENTS ARE TOLD TO "DO YOUR BEST" AND THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS AND THEN THE STUDENTS WHO PERFORM WELL ARE RECOGNIZED WITH REWARDS...THERE IS A PROBLEM. THERE IS ALSO A PROBLEM WHEN A CHILD WHO HAS CONSISTENTLY SCORED "A"s on report cards, and a"

"Dear Governor Bush, please resign as you are unfit to be the governor of Florida. Thanks."

"My granddaughter also got bored because of the weeks of test after test she quit - now she will have to stay in third grade - now check this out she is a A&B student. Some test?"

"I work as a coordinator for tutors/mentors for the students and I agree with this student's plea. The FCAT is a waste of time. It puts too much pressure on the students to keep up with standard, but everyone learns differently. Perhaps each school should "

"Same as the DIBELS Test for Kindergarten!!! Grandson may not get promoted to First Grade due to low-test scores. He does well in the classroom and is very smart. He just gets scared and emotional when it comes to the pressure of this DIBELS testing."

"DO AWAY WITH THE FCATS!!!!!- THEY ARE USELESS... HAVE THE TEACHERS DO WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN HIRED TO DO- TEACH!!!!! & NOT WASTING THEIR TIME PREPARING THE KIDS FOR TEST -TAKING.... THEY WILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME FOR THAT WHEN THEY GET INTO THE HIGHER GRA"

"I don't want FCAT. It stresses the students out. Tell Bush to quit because I hate him."

"We will be happy to help you take legal action against the FCAT and sue the florida department of education to stop the FCAT."

"Stop the FCAT"

"I have riased four children, and have seen the stress they are under before, during and after FCAT. The stress continues untill they have seen the results many months later. I DO NOT want my Grandchild under the same stress!"

"The FCAT does only one thing, teaches our future leaders only one way to think. What happened to teaching outside the box, independent thinking, various ways to come to a conclusion to an answer. The FCAT stops individual thinking, common sense abilities "

"It is unfair to the public school students since the private schools are not required to take this test."