Third Grade Reports

I am telling you that I have never seen third graders have so much homework. The boys seem to have some sort of report due every time we turn around. Part of the problem is that in Florida kids have to take the stupid FCAT test and in 3rd grade there is part of it that if you don't pass you don't pass third grade. It is supposed to be part of this no student left behind crap. Well a student can have actually earned straight A's on their report card all year long and if they fail this stupid test they don't pass. Well the teachers spend the largest portion of the year teaching this FCAT test and now that the test is over they have to teach the kids everything that they should have earned in the entire year. So now they are in hyper homework mode. I think it is horrible but there isn't much that people can do about it.