I’ve got two kids in school right now, and the amount of time required for testing is simply ridiculous. My (then) third grade son devoted three weeks straight last spring to standardized tests, which wore him to a frazzle. So yeah, they need to go away.
I don’t disagree. What I do disagree with is the reasons why Obama and company (union teachers included) don’t want to be held accountable.
For the record, I have three grand daughters going through elementary school and I spend most weekends working with them on homework and the like. Their work isn’t so much keyed to standardized tests, per se, but the weird methods of arriving at an answer, for example in math.