(NEWARK STAR-LEDGER) Is it okay to ask a child to reveal a secret?
Richard Goldberg doesn’t think so.
Goldberg, the father of 8-year old twin boys, was dismayed to learn his third-grade sons were asked to write an essay about a secret they had and why it was hard to keep.
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The unusual question, which Goldberg called "entirely inappropriate" was on the standardized tests given to public school students in the third through eighth grade every spring.