STUDENTS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, and ADMINISTRATORS: This is a CALL TO ACTION If Standardized Testing is frying you (or your children), and you live in Texas, now is the time to SPEAK UP to your Texas legislators. In this article, I'm hoping to provide everything you need to contact your legislators and tell them that reducing the high school EOCs (end of course exams) from 15 to 5 is NOT ENOUGH. They are NOT FINISHED with testing reform this year if they want us to re-elect them. This first week of STAAR testing, I've heard firsthand accounts of each of the following: elementary school children physically ill because of worry over the STAAR test. students threatened "you pass this test" (that we don't know the content of and no one has ever seen before and we don't know when we'll get back) "or you FAIL 5th grade"! (Not exactly true, but a scary threat! parents attempting to "opt out" only to be informed their students cannot move on to th...