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> rely on a host of shitty online platforms and expect the kids to figure out how to navigate all of them.

This sounds like good real world preparation

> Ourselves and many parents didn’t know how bad it was until standard testing came up and our kids were scoring in the single digits in percentile.

Who was the comparator group here?

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> > rely on a host of shitty online platforms and expect the kids to figure out how to navigate all of them.

> This sounds like good real world preparation

Or, we could push to have a better standard for them, and get them to see and treat the shitty software as something other than an unavoidable and unchangeable status quo.

The comparator group is every kid in the state at the same grade level.

It is very shocking to see an 8th grader with a 3.5 GPA come in at 9 percentile in multiple subjects.

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