[TheLurkerX]

The thing that kills me is that my daughter just took this test. She has ADD and is a slower learner, but this year she has turned in mostly A's and B's in a regular classroom environment. The teacher dragged ass so much in class that she had to cram all kinds of stuff covered in the Gateway into the last couple of weeks of school. They were trying to cover one science chapter a day right before the test. She wound up failing those sections. But they assured us it doesn't matter, because they were going to pass her anyway. This test is a joke, and so is the school system in Gwinnett. I also don't appreciate my fourth grader being taught that inter-racial dating is ok, and it's ok for people to live together. These are concepts that fall under the parents beliefs and jurisdiction, and whether I believe or don't believe in them is not the point. It's a matter of right and wrong. It's not the school's place to brainwash my child with their mantra of choice. I would have problems with this kind of stuff being taught in a high school health class, much less to pre-pubescent 10 year olds without their parents signing off on it.

[jragan2001]

As talk show host Neal Boortz says here in Atlanta, why would you turn the most precious thing that's yours ( your child) and turn him or her over to the government to be educated at a government-indoctrination center (A school)???