STANDARDIZED TESTING Last week we had standardized testing on Mon-Wed for middle schoolers.  Testing is a lot different in private schools being that we don't receive government funds and therefore are not required to take state tests.  Our school still has decided to take the IOWA (not named after the state) test as a way of helping us as educators see if there's any disconcerting trends (such as a large portion of the 7th graders doing poorly on math estimation or something) as well as a measure to show 'the outside world' that there indeed is learning going on here.…