Re: Florida students: only 30% pass portion of state mandated test

hoppy, there are many factors in students failing standardized testing...poor teaching, lousy textbooks, lazy parents, lack of self-motivation in students to learn, "teaching to the test," overcrowded classrooms, hunger in a child's belly, just to name a few. All of the above can be corrected, but until teachers, parents, AND kids in school do their part to educated and learn in clean and well-equipped schools, there will always be children who do not "make the grade."