Opting out of the MAP test and a MAP opt out letter template just in time for Spring testing
From Evaluation system will compound problems by Wendy Lecker in Connecticut, to follow is an excerpt:
Amid all the talk of the proposed teacher evaluation system, one major effect is not being discussed — the exponential increase in standardized tests that these evaluations demand.
The proposed system requires one-fifth of every teacher’s evaluation to be based on a standardized test. Thus, instead of having standardized tests in reading, writing, math in grades 3-8 and 10, and science in grades 5, 8 and 10, our children will now endure standardized tests in every grade and every subject, from kindergarten art to high school gym.
Is this the direction in which we, parents, want our schools to go? With the standardized tests we have now, our children’s education is being narrowed. All over this state, art, music, social studies