No Final Exams In A Surbaban Dallas School

Final examinations will be a thing of the past for one suburban Dallas school district after administrators decided students were simply taking too many tests, leaving teachers with less time to actually teach anything.

The Frisco Independent School District announced Wednesday that it would dispense with finals for its more than 37,000 students — especially at its four high schools.

Previously, the final examination schedule was a two-week process consisting of four days of review and four days of testing, said Kenny Chandler, district director of school improvement.

In recent years, more time has been taken up by the addition of standardized state testing. District officials said the addition of those tests, along with advance placement, college placement and other exams, created the need to recover instruction days.

With all of the examinations administered to students, “We do not need to add to that any more than is necessary,” Chandler said in a district statement issued Wednesday. “We believe that preserving instructional time is the most important thing we can do.”

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