You know you’re a parent when your nightmares are of arguing with the Powers That Be that your child’s poor showing on a standardized test is due to the fact that the administrators wouldn’t give him time enough to accomplish the physical act of writing, and that writing speed is not a measure of either intelligence or academic prowess. The terrifying thing is that because my son differences are not immediately visible, I may well be making that argument some day. Not in first grade, thouogh. They don’t administer the ISTEP (Indiana State Testing for Education Progress) in first grade. For today, it’s only a nightmare.