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Schools grasp at any straws they can when it comes to standardized tests.
The reality is that if the students weren't prepared before the test, chewing some Doublemint will not suddenly make a failing student pass, nor will it raise test scores across the board by giving the entire student body a stick of gum on test day.
What might help test performance is if we stop putting so much pressure on these students to perform for our benefit.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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