A Kindergartner’s Nightmare
Is this education? Is this what we want for our children and grandchildren?
Teachers have called the testing regime child abuse and here you get to read about it firsthand.
A teacher’s recount of the first day of Common Core Testing as posted on the Badass Teachers (BATS) Facebook page:
“I’m aiming for the short version here.
My kindergartners had their standardized computerized test today.
There were over 100 questions. Answers were selected by drop and drag with a trackpad, no mouse is available. One class took five hours to finish. Kids crying in 4 of 5 classes. Multiple computer crashes (“okay, you just sit right there while we fix it! Don’t talk to anyone!”). Kids sitting for half hour with volume off on headsets but not saying anything. Kids accidentally swapping tangled headsets and not even noticing what they heard had nothing to do with what they saw on the screen. Kids having to solve 8+6
