Why MUST our children take high stakes state mandated tests?
“Know your place, and be thankful you have a job.”
Yes, our children are learning this right now – unless we refuse useless high stakes testing for them. Re-learn what Charles Dickens once taught us.
Our children are being forced to take high stakes state mandated tests that have been proven again and again to have little or no value to their education. Obviously, Pearson and other testing related corporations are making billions of dollars from taxes intended for public education. But there comes a point of greed and destructive purpose that must be opposed. The perfect example is in the Illinois tests of the Chicago Public Schools. The ISAT tests will not be used for any purpose – no student or school assessments, no teacher evaluations, no funding requirements, no college preparation, no job requirements… Nothing.
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According to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Barbara Byrd-Bennett, CEO of CPS, teachers will be fired and their certification revoked to end their careers in education for refusal to prep and give the tests. Students will receive a whole list of punishments. Parents have been