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RE: Part 2 The Testing Games ; What the Eff? Are Schools the New Hunger Games?
Awesome article, yeah my dad has been a teacher for a long time, and all the standardized testing has done is made him no longer focus on truly teaching the students, but more on teaching them how to pass a test!
Nothing good comes from taking test, in fact most the information learned just for the test is never truly retained!
Your also right schools in my city all boast the ratings, specially the ones that claim they were in the top as in A+, to me the big A+ just means it is a school I would never send my kids to being they are more focused on a test that, to me, means nothing in the end. To bad teachers can no longer do what many of them really love, and that is to really just teach people!
So true! We decided to shift our focus from testing to arts at our school and my, oh my, has the turnaround impressed everyone. The arts motivate the students to come to school and teach them to think outside the box, or in the case of testing, outside the bubble. I am a teacher, also. We got a pretty solid movement together a few years back and managed to convince our local school board to opt out of testing. It was a first. It didn't last, feds came down hard, but we got our point across. In the last few years, we've managed to decrease the testing laws by half. I, personally, opt my daughter out of all state testing. Many do not realize that is an option. Glad you enjoyed the article. I have a few more in the series. I am posting this series once a week. Happy New Year to you and your dad! Send him my thanks for his service! Blessings!