This is a school year fraught with quarantine disruption, turnstile attendance, distancing and sanitizing burdens, and spotty internet capabilities.
The very idea that most schools and districts could somehow pull off federally-mandated standardized testing in the spring of 2021 and that the testing outcome would evidence anything other than the schisms of this cubist painting of a year is nothing more than bureaucratic lunacy.
What would be the point, other than to give tests for testing’s sake?
Oh, but we need to know who is *falling behind.*
In this footrace in which all participants’ shoelaces have been tied together to some degree, assume everyone is falling behind. We don’t need tests to tell us as much.
Call it pandemic-induced common sense.
Spring 2021 testing is an unwelcome burden. As such, I expect states to seek waivers from those federally-mandated tests from the incoming Biden administration. Indeed, on New CONTINUE READING: States: Ask Biden Administration to Waive Spring 2021 Testing | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog
