Support the teachers and parents at Saucedo and Drummond schools who refuse the useless state mandated tests
Refusal to give a totally useless state mandated test, refusing to waste weeks of class-time for children who need education, and refusal to demean the children in their trust, the brave teachers at two Chicago schools have opted out if the bizarre institutionalized child abuse of this year’s ISAT test. These teachers are being threatened not merely with the loss of their jobs, Barbara Byrd Bennett, the CEO of Chicago Public Schools, threatens to remove their teacher certification. Their careers as teachers anywhere would be destroyed. That is “scorched earth” warfare against public educators.
The state mandated ISAT has already been abandoned by the state. The scores will be used for nothing – no federal, state or city funding, no student evaluation, no teacher or school assessment – nothing. “This test, which you’ve already discarded, is useless. You have already replaced it with another high-stakes test, to which you have attached all the traditional trappings of meaning: the NWEA MAP test will be your test of choice this year to determine who gets in where, and what schools get what, and what schools don’t get what.”Read the Chicago.Now article HERE.
Over 160 University Education Faculty members support the refusal by the Chicago teachers and parents at Saucedo and Drummond. “As university faculty whose