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Do you remember if those results were used to benefit you? I was very surprised between the different purpose of tests between when I was young, and when my kids were young.
The change is my opinion on why cities like Baltimore can't pass a single child. The tests serve the child no purpose.
The real benefit was the ability to be placed into the gifted class with people of similar intelligence where we would work on semester long research projects and play games like chess etc.
Elementary school in particular was painfully boring. I memorized most of the material in minutes and I just sat in class day dreaming or doodling unless the teacher was one that allowed me to read library books. I said it as a child and I'll still say it now but if public schools are going to exist then they should have a separate curriculum for the academically inclined students. I just happened to go to a pretty decent but small school where everyone knew everyone else's family well.
I went to elementary school in a different state than my kids. The quality there was better than private school here. Even when I moved in middle school I could see it. My 5ty grade history book in IL was my 8th grade history book in MD.