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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: When High Stakes Testing becomes Abusive, it's Time for Parents to Keep their Children Home.

Missouri Education Watchdog: When High Stakes Testing becomes Abusive, it's Time for Parents to Keep their Children Home.:


When High Stakes Testing becomes Abusive, it's Time for Parents to Keep their Children Home.

When an educational system becomes so abusive as to cause physical and/or emotional harm to children, it is a parent's duty to keep that child home from public school and find other schooling alternatives...or demand changes to school policy.

MAP testing is a terrible time of the year.  Remember our post last year about the reasons MAP is given to students?  It's not to determine the true educational knowledge of students.  It's to determine how well