[ladylib]

I guess the Regents are becoming like the NAEP tests that th feds want to foist on school kids everywhere. Unfortunately, from what I've read, the NAEP measures ATTITUDES, not academic knowledge, so many, many students (private and home schooled) will have a difficult time passing them.

[concerned about politics]

ATTITUDES, not academic knowledge, so many, many students (private and home schooled) will have a difficult time passing them.

Exactly. The private schools and homeschoolers are into academics, something way beyond public school comprehension.