“This testing is intended to see if students are being taught what they need to know. It’s to their benefit.”
The new tests are aligned with common core, so it’s really not to their benefit. It is to the benefit of some crony corporations like Pearson Education, though.
What I generally notice about these protests..., they’re never framed to focus on the Conservative point of view.
They are Leftist in nature. The only group I have heard that hates this testing, it’s the teachers and their unions. They hate it because they view it an invasion of their classroom, and it holds them responsible.
So Common Core may have gotten caught in the process here by accident, but I still submit these protests are Leftist in nature. They aren’t protesting Common Core. Common core won’t be challenged. It’s the testing they hate.
I don’t necessarily disagree with your point about Common Core, but testing is an important way to see if the kids and the teachers are improving.
Now, should common core be addressed? Why sure it should. I agree there.
The fact that teachers oppose the tests speaks volumes; the fact is grades have been so watered down every parent thinks their children are prodigies when the truth is they are not educated much at all.
These tests expose the lie, and that is why they are attacked. I don’t need a standardized test to tell me my “A” student children would be “C+” students in the schools I attended 30 years ago. The testing may not be oerfect, but without it we have to take the word of teachers who have every reason to lie.