Ha! Just had a similar conversation with our son. We were reviewing his work from last week and I noticed that his "test prep" homework for science was stapled to the test.

"What's this doing here?"

"We're allowed to use it for our test."

"But it has all the answers on it!"

"Not all of them, just most."

WTH?

I've seen this a handful of times and find it positively loony. Even a traditional "open-book" would be harder than this.

"Back in the day..." we had similar homework consisting of "study questions" to help us prepare for tests. But to have these out during the test would be considered cheating.

Anything goes for NCLB, I suppose.


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