“They’ll literally take the first quarter of the entire year, for a freshman will be how to pass the MCAS…it’s not just learning the curriculum, but it’s also like they literally force you to pass because [our school] doesn’t have good MCAS scores. They don’t want us to be good. They want to make it look good.”
— Focus Group Report
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