Love This Kid: Fourth Grader Speaks Out Against Standardized Testing
Fourth grader Sydney Smoot has some great points!
via@BoingBoing
Love This Kid: Fourth Grader Speaks Out Against Standardized Testing
Fourth grader Sydney Smoot has some great points!
via@BoingBoing
I have a problem with the word, "standardized" AND with the idea that a test should NOT be standardized.
The entire physical world has no regard whatsoever for your self-esteem, innate abilities, potential or opinions. Testing is necessary - but it doesn't have to be a one-time thing; achievement can be tracked the whole year long.
I am in awe of the Georgia school system, for instance, which allows parents to insist that raising their child is the school's responsibility - and offers multiple choice spelling tests as fifth-grade material. It's geared to process students as a commodity. Teach? Not so much.
The audience is cheering a remarkable little girl, whose success is not the product of a public school, but of a nurturing home. I've seen this sort of thing before. I hope somebody pays attention, because the student body isn't always the dumbest group on any campus.
Radwaste at April 18, 2015 6:37 AM
In a word, meh.
I could go through the flaws in her arguments. But they are just the exact same whines teachers have made for years. If her teachers don't want to be measured don't ask for a paycheck.
Ben at April 19, 2015 3:01 PM
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