“Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.”
---Peter Elbow
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Dear President Obama,
I hope that you are sincere about too much testing in schools. Testing takes away time from learning. In addition, testing does not add value. Teachers are living in a real-time setting and all the suggestions made from those far from the classroom usually offer rather lame ones.
Do you know that parents are truly upset about the over-testing of their children. I know kids who don't eat lunch during the two horrible weeks of high stakes testing. The boys don't even lunch on these days. They tell me they just want to move. Another high school girl was protesting. She bubbled in all the D's on the 2010 high stakes tests and wrote the same short answer for each question. Guess what? She received a score of proficient. How valid is this. Kids are dropping out of school, because of the curriculum is not relevant and interesting. They must follow the script read by the teachers written by those far away from the classroom.
President Obama, I would love to sit and talk with you. You will learn a lot from me.
Do you know that parents are truly upset about the over-testing of their children. I know kids who don't eat lunch during the two horrible weeks of high stakes testing. The boys don't even lunch on these days. They tell me they just want to move. Another high school girl was protesting. She bubbled in all the D's on the 2010 high stakes tests and wrote the same short answer for each question. Guess what? She received a score of proficient. How valid is this. Kids are dropping out of school, because of the curriculum is not relevant and interesting. They must follow the script read by the teachers written by those far away from the classroom.
President Obama, I would love to sit and talk with you. You will learn a lot from me.
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