#CommonCore Misinformation Being Spread by Principal and Teacher | Missouri Education Watchdog

#CommonCore Misinformation Being Spread by Principal and Teacher | Missouri Education Watchdog:

#CommonCore Misinformation Being Spread by Principal and Teacher

inShare

So what do you do when your educational professionals are outed as Pinocchio?

The Play: Standardized Testing in a Minnesota School District

Act I: Day One of Standardized Testing

Scene:

Parents opt children out of standardized Common Core State Standards InitiativeMinnesota Learning Standards assessments.

Students go to school and state they are not to take the assessments.

Teacher and principal spread misinformation (or serious non-factual information) about the testing trying to coerce students to take the test against parental direction.

Listen to the recordings from the classroom and the exact words from the teachers and principals trying to talk students into taking the assessments.  From Truth in American Education andMinnesota Students Pressured Over Opting Out of Assessments:

A principal and science teacher in a southern Minnesota middle school tried to convince students who opted out of taking the NWEA MAP test last week that their parents misunderstood the assessments and were conveying false information to them about the nature of the assessments.

Some students recorded their principal talking to students who opted out of the assessments waiting in their school’s cafeteria while the assessments were administered.

“Do you know that is not true?  There is not Common Core in it.  People are confused about this.  Common Core is this thing that is nation wide that no school in the state of Minnesota practices.  No school… They hear it on the national news, but it is not being taught.  You are not being taught Common Core.  Nor is Common Core in the NWEAs.  Common Core is about here are the objectives that students need to know and it has nothing to do with Common Core.  There is no bias in the NWEAs, and people are really confused about that.  And I’ve talked with some of your parents and some of them are going to come back and visit with me about that a little bit.”

“But just so you know that is not true,” she added.  “NWEA is just what is 3×5 and it has nothing to do with the Common Core and Common Core has nothing to do with the state of Minnesota.  We have Minnesota standards.  We have nothing to do with Common Core whatsoever.  So those are some misconceptions.  So you can clarify those and talk with some of your parents about that.  But that’s a big misconception.”

A science teacher who was also in the room chimed in.  “I have to tell you that when you don’t take the NWEA in Science it crushes my soul because I don’t give you guys tests very often and even less this year than last.  I’m trying to do mostly projects,” she said.  “Sometimes I can miss if you are really excelling.  All I can see is ‘oh yeah they got #CommonCore Misinformation Being Spread by Principal and Teacher | Missouri Education Watchdog: