"I'm just no good at kindergarten, just no good at all.”
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| Students, get ready to test, test, test! Teachers must prepare 5 year old children for the workforce! |
Yesterday we wrote about a teacher who quit because of common core standards, top down testing and administrators who cared more about testing results than authentic learning.
Today we feature a story from Chicago and a mother's observation on her kindergartner's classroom. It's truly heartbreaking. This is a story that is undoubtedly occurring in kindergarten rooms in those states that adopted common core standards and other high stakes tests so 5 year old children can be tracked for career readiness.
Is this what you want for your school? To treat kindergartners like human capital for their data sets?
From raiseyourhand.org:
Testing? Testing?
Submitted by Claire Wapole on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 11:28am
I've heard from teachers, education experts and even from my older kids, just how stressful all the standard