February 24, 2005

Dear Students:

Next week you will be taking a test known as the FCAT, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. It is important for your teachers, your parents, you and me to know how much you have learned and how well your school is doing in helping you get the knowledge and skills you will need.

So I ask you to get a good night's sleep, to eat a healthy breakfast, and to do your very best on the test.

I also want you to know that your parents, your teachers and I will never define you by a test score. We know that you are capable, talented and full of great promise. The FCAT will not tell you or us how far you will go, only where you have been so far. However you do on this test, we still will love you, care for you deeply, and try even harder to teach you well.

Good luck.

Sincerely,

Rudolph F. Crew Ed.D.

Superintendent of Schools