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Standardized Tests
- Thread starter Randy
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Get your kids out of today's public indoctrination schools. Standard testing helps the people make lots of money putting out these useless tests over and over again. But does nothing for the kids who learn nothing from common core.
TRUE LIBERTY said:
Who makes money from kids taking a test?
Anyway I suppose they serve a purpose, making sure that all children are being taught and are proficient in the established standards for their grade level... But they shouldn't be counted towards their overall grade for the class.
The only thing a test proves is you can read, remember, and spit out the answers the test taker wants out of you. It doesn't show if you know why the answer you gave is correct and that's just as important even more so then simply knowing what answer to give.
Being able to just spit out answers makes you a drone. Being able to explain the rationale behind why an answer is right over the other possible answers makes you intelligent and looking at the world we can see what we are mass producing here in these public schools.
Being able to just spit out answers makes you a drone. Being able to explain the rationale behind why an answer is right over the other possible answers makes you intelligent and looking at the world we can see what we are mass producing here in these public schools.
No, standardized testing is not a comprehensive way of testing knowledge and skills as it only forces the students to utilize rote memory. Anyone capable of memorizing information could do well enough, but that doesn't mean they could perform the skills you learn in the classroom. It should be done away with, or at least not utilized as a means to test knowledge and skills, nor should every child be expected to perform well with the many different aspects of test-taking that could affect the outcome.
Nebulous said:
The only purpose they serve in teaching is making todays generation a bunch dumb zombies. Its not god in classrooms we should be worried about but cronyism in our schools.
Webster said:TRUE LIBERTY said:
A dumb bunch of zombies....you mean, like these bright geniuses?
...you get the idea.
No not really. Bad writing skills does not make good ideas wrong.
TRUE LIBERTY said:
I'll agree with this. We need to appoint people to positions of authority who've actually been in the classroom, taught for years, met with parents, written up IEPs, attended conferences and brought home homework and tests to grade. We need not to put people in suits who've never stepped foot in a classroom aside from when they were children. These people coming up with and requiring standardized tests are not capable of making the proper decisions for what our students need.
