As I stumbled across your page, and this post, I don't mind saying standardized tests are horrid. Yesterday I watched a kid sleep through an entire morning of it. Just hard core sleep. Since we don't hold kids back these days, he will slide on from my class to high school next year. Testing? Grades? All meaningless.
A comment section isn't the place for a long-winded diatribe, I suppose. Not even the place for a medium-winded diatribe. But the curriculum narrowing from testing, among other impacts, has always been sickening.
I agree! As a public school teacher, I’m in the minority here, but I don’t think standardized tests are horrible. With lower teacher expectations and grade inflation, tests might be more useful that ever in the next few years
As I stumbled across your page, and this post, I don't mind saying standardized tests are horrid. Yesterday I watched a kid sleep through an entire morning of it. Just hard core sleep. Since we don't hold kids back these days, he will slide on from my class to high school next year. Testing? Grades? All meaningless.
A comment section isn't the place for a long-winded diatribe, I suppose. Not even the place for a medium-winded diatribe. But the curriculum narrowing from testing, among other impacts, has always been sickening.
I agree! As a public school teacher, I’m in the minority here, but I don’t think standardized tests are horrible. With lower teacher expectations and grade inflation, tests might be more useful that ever in the next few years