City school are over-crowded with undisciplined apes in human skin suits. Rather than promote teaching how to be a human being and rewarding this behavior, government throws money at lazy solutions like standardized testing. It was an okay idea if you were merely testing basic skills and knowledge, but one size fits all education does not work when you make it too broad.
My own experience with those easy standardized tests was why I never understood that particular opposition to "No Child Left Behind", although now I'm against public education in general.
I'm homeschooling and I like using standardized tests to benchmark progress.
That said, the tests themselves are structured in such a convoluted way that the hardest part is often determining exactly what the question is asking or how it's supposed to be answered. This leads to "teaching to the test" and the propagation of adherence to established hierarchy, rather than actual aptitude.
Standardized tests also play into the one-size-fits-all model of education. They should be a bare minimum but there don't seem to be any complementary aptitude tests to identify strengths that can be further developed. The guiding principal seems to be: if a kid passes, cover them in busy-work to keep then out of the way while we work on improving the failing kids.
This leads directly to boredom in the academic kids and, at the same time, boredom in the non-academic kids who may very well excel at fields that require problem solving, spacial awareness or physical aptitude, but are now stuck doing basic math and language drills.
I remember sitting a science exam and being presented with a partially labelled diagram of a blast furnace.
The first task was to fill in the rest of the labels, the second task was to write an explanation.
This was easy, because I had been presented this exact fucking diagram barely a month ago and told exactly what it was and how it worked. I was told everything about it.
I didn't have to understand anything. All I had to do was remember what I'd been told. A real science education would not have drilled the workings of this particular style of furnace into me. A real science education would have drilled into me the essential physical properties of the materials going into it. If I had known this, I could have answered this question for any design of furnace, not just this one that I'd been familiarized with.
The result is that I have a basic, shallow understanding of how a blast furnace works, but I don't really know the melting point of iron, the energy density of coal, or anything else that would give a me a deeper understanding of what is truly going on.
Naa, this is BS. Standardized tests are the best way you know they're teaching at least some of the basics and not 100% "black power queer drag queen hour".
This is true but if all they have to do is teach kids to memorize the answers to a handful of questions (less if they can get their hands on the actual test), all they're doing is reinforcing their own authority by giving the illusion that the teacher knows everything and all you need to do is listeb to them.
The best, nay only, way to know that they aren't just teaching your kids a bunch of queer nonsense is to actually go into the schools and see (Newsflash, they are. They all are)
You need to volunteer in the classrooms, at lunch, on the playground, and in extra-curriculars. But, at that point, why not just homeschool?
That is indeed why they exist, but I'm not convinced they're the "best way". They're simply the only way we're allowed to approach the problem because things like:
Segregating students who don't learn as quickly as others into their own classrooms (violates Civil Rights Act)
Firing teachers and the administrators who enable them who teach "black power queer drag queen hour" (State curriculum may require teaching this)
De-normalization of the two-income household and re-normalization of parents raising/teaching their children (jeopardizes Line Go Up)
Are either illegal or deemed "immoral" thanks to decades of propaganda.
City school are over-crowded with undisciplined apes in human skin suits. Rather than promote teaching how to be a human being and rewarding this behavior, government throws money at lazy solutions like standardized testing. It was an okay idea if you were merely testing basic skills and knowledge, but one size fits all education does not work when you make it too broad.
My own experience with those easy standardized tests was why I never understood that particular opposition to "No Child Left Behind", although now I'm against public education in general.
I'm homeschooling and I like using standardized tests to benchmark progress.
That said, the tests themselves are structured in such a convoluted way that the hardest part is often determining exactly what the question is asking or how it's supposed to be answered. This leads to "teaching to the test" and the propagation of adherence to established hierarchy, rather than actual aptitude.
Standardized tests also play into the one-size-fits-all model of education. They should be a bare minimum but there don't seem to be any complementary aptitude tests to identify strengths that can be further developed. The guiding principal seems to be: if a kid passes, cover them in busy-work to keep then out of the way while we work on improving the failing kids.
This leads directly to boredom in the academic kids and, at the same time, boredom in the non-academic kids who may very well excel at fields that require problem solving, spacial awareness or physical aptitude, but are now stuck doing basic math and language drills.
I remember sitting a science exam and being presented with a partially labelled diagram of a blast furnace.
The first task was to fill in the rest of the labels, the second task was to write an explanation.
This was easy, because I had been presented this exact fucking diagram barely a month ago and told exactly what it was and how it worked. I was told everything about it.
I didn't have to understand anything. All I had to do was remember what I'd been told. A real science education would not have drilled the workings of this particular style of furnace into me. A real science education would have drilled into me the essential physical properties of the materials going into it. If I had known this, I could have answered this question for any design of furnace, not just this one that I'd been familiarized with.
The result is that I have a basic, shallow understanding of how a blast furnace works, but I don't really know the melting point of iron, the energy density of coal, or anything else that would give a me a deeper understanding of what is truly going on.
The Epoch Times is to boomercon to name the real culprit: demographics.
Naa, this is BS. Standardized tests are the best way you know they're teaching at least some of the basics and not 100% "black power queer drag queen hour".
This is true but if all they have to do is teach kids to memorize the answers to a handful of questions (less if they can get their hands on the actual test), all they're doing is reinforcing their own authority by giving the illusion that the teacher knows everything and all you need to do is listeb to them.
The best, nay only, way to know that they aren't just teaching your kids a bunch of queer nonsense is to actually go into the schools and see (Newsflash, they are. They all are)
You need to volunteer in the classrooms, at lunch, on the playground, and in extra-curriculars. But, at that point, why not just homeschool?
That is indeed why they exist, but I'm not convinced they're the "best way". They're simply the only way we're allowed to approach the problem because things like:
Are either illegal or deemed "immoral" thanks to decades of propaganda.
required registration to read, gay
https://web.archive.org/web/20220329154924/https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-swindle-of-mass-testing-and-schooling_4364666.html
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