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#English exam fail is no laughing matter

#English exam fail is no laughing matter

Many of the questions on the recent New York state English exam for grades 3-8 duplicated ones from old tests on a practice Web site, rendering the exams worthless. It’s a giveaway that the State Education Department’s mission is now to spread ignorance about how little children are learning.

Stunningly, SED’s Emily DeSantis told The Post that the scores will be deemed “valid” — and claimed the pandemic made it impossible to develop new questions.

The spokeswoman cited the department’s supposed “inability to field test questions during the pandemic” and noted that some experts said it would OK.

Which still doesn’t explain why SED also recycled many of the same questions from a test-prep site it runs.

This looks like deliberate sabotage: SED, which is effectively controlled by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and thus by the state’s teachers’ unions, doesn’t want parents knowing how far their kids fell behind in a year of mostly virtual “learning.” It first asked the federal Education Department to waive the Regents and other assessment exams for a second straight year. When that was rejected, they decided to offer a bogus, rigged exam instead.

A little creativity would’ve allowed it to field-test other questions (plenty of other states and nations managed to do assessments, after all) or at least to avoid duplicating ones on its own practice tests.

Instead (as Frances Kweller, founder of tutoring company Kweller Prep, puts it), “New York can now pretend that there was no learning loss — a claim we all know isn’t true.”

Bottom line: The people in charge of education in this state don’t give a damn about the kids. Their top priority is to keep you in the dark about the system’s failures.

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