This is not a standardized test. This is not a drill. This is the —known to its survivors simply as NatPlus .
Critics call NatPlus "academic hazing." Dr. Marcus Thorne, an education professor at Stanford, argues: "The 'Plus' is just trauma with a fancy name. We are teaching kids that self-destruction is a virtue. No problem set is worth a panic attack." natplus contest
"Standardized exams are rearview mirrors," Voss famously said in her manifesto, The Plus Condition . "They tell you where a student has been. NatPlus is a headlight. It shows you where they could go." This is not a standardized test