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BY DANIELLE CARTER

ANCHOR MEGAN MURPHY


A New Jersey test asked some third graders to write about a secret they had and why it was hard to keep. Oh boy.


Here’s Austin’s KEYE with more.

“Outraged parents say someone should be held accountable for putting their kids in a difficult position in the middle of a test.”

New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press reports a New Jersey Department of Education spokesman says the question is still under evaluation, and wouldn’t count on the test, called the NJ ASK test, anyway.

“...the question actually is a ‘field test question,’ part of a vetting process in which potential NJ ASK questions are themselves put to the test.”

Despite the question being approved, the makers of the test still aren’t sure what they would do if a child had a dark secret, say, knowledge of a crime. 

 

However, WPIX offers a solution.

“The only way to ensure the privacy of 4,000 families in New Jersey is to throw out all 4,000 of the tests with the secret question.”

One sarcastic Gawker writer feels worse for the criticizing parents, wondering what they might be trying to hide. 

 

What if a child, for instance, had actually witnessed something horrible, like a murder, the writer asks.

“Parents could not have some punk kids blabbing away in their clumsy, unpracticed cursive, the bloody truths they’d already killed so many to conceal.”

The question has already been removed from future tests.