The growing revolt against testing madness
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| Seattle NAACP announces support for test boycott. |
The teachers revolt at Seattle's Garfield High has lit a spark that's growing into a prairie fire. Today is being called a National Day of Action to Support Seattle MAP Test Boycott.
The Seattle Times reports that despite Supt. Banda'sinsistence that widely criticized tests be given, angry parents are joining the revolt and pulling their kids out of the testing process. On Tuesday, only 97 of the roughly 400 ninth-graders who were supposed to take the MAP reading test did so. The other 300 had their parents’ permission to be excused.
Teachers say the tests’ margin of error is greater than the number of points that the average ninth-grader is expected to gain, th