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This ought to drive parents crazy.

The Ontario Liberals are poised to scrap provincewide EQAO tests for Grade 3 and Grade 9 students if they get re-elected.

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They’re also proposing to eliminate mandatory requirements for high school students to pass a literacy test to graduate.

And they’d water down provincewide tests for Grade 6 and Grade 9 students, according to the Ontario: A Learning Province report commissioned by Premier Kathleen Wynne and quietly released Tuesday by Education Minister Indira Naidoo-Harris.

It’s a report that should worry every parent with a child in a publicly funded Ontario school, and because of its broad and explosive implications, the government clearly seems worried about a backlash.

So much so that Naidoo-Harris decided “further consulation” was needed before implementing the report’s 18 recommendations — and only after the June 7 provincial election. The government has also kept the province’s independent school testing agency in the dark about its contents.