Kids are no longer taught spelling, finer points of grammar, etc. in English classes. You'll notice that blacks and Hispanics scored the worst, especially English Language Learners. Those kids are not raised, for the most part, in homes where learning is encouraged or facilitated by parents supplying educational books and games in the home. Nor is education highly valued. So children from those homes do not come to school hungry to learn. If they exhibit eagerness to learn, they are quickly ridiculed by classmates as "acting white".
It is also true that many teachers do not give tests which require written answers, only multiple choice answers. There are several reasons for this. First, you can have the kids fill out Scantron forms for multiple choice tests, quickly run those through a reader machine and bingo, your tests are graded. Secondly, since written exams require the students to write out answers, their glaring lack of writing skills (as plainly shown in the example of a completed test question) will be readily discerned, and that could make the teacher look bad. With the current draconian "Gotcha!" system of teacher evaluations going on, few teachers would willingly supply such a handle to observers. Third, the ever-present excuse "You racist!" would surely be put into use when the scores of written exams are analyzed, and black and Hispanic students are found to have much lower scores. So, since you have a 25% chance of GUESSING the right answer on a multiple choice test with answers A-D to choose from, they make both students and teachers look better. Never mind that in the long run, students are not being diagnosed as needing significant drilling with writing and spelling skills--just push 'em through and move 'em on. Social promotion is very much alive and well, to the detriment of students truly attaining a mastery of essential communication skills. Teachers are under the gun to pass just about anyone who can fog up a mirror. And these same students will have the right to vote, not even being able to extract the information about candidates and issues accurately due to their pidgin English level of reading and writing.
They lack language skills and the (interwoven) critical thinking skills.
An answer such as "Evidence? What evidence! I feel that she is credible because she is a woman and women deserve our compassion and to be believed..." just doesn't cut the mustard.
Regards,
The solution is simple: separation of school and state. If parents had to pay for education they would naturally want their kids to work at learning. ‘Free Stuff’ is naturally going to be treated with contempt.
Shouldn't that be, "for their WRITTEN answers"?
That’s ok, it only happens in ‘those’ schools. My WONDERFUL public school would NEVER allow students to perform so badly.
...by the way, anyone have a copy of Mrs. Dolce’s 3rd Grade Sight Words? My kid needs to memorize them in order to read.
Publik skrewls are state sanctioned child abuse.
Hmmm. I wonder how the home-schooled kids did on these tests.
Don’t understand what the fuss is about.
Critical thinking? Evidence? Those are white, imperialist constructs designed to maintain the white patriarchy. Emotions, feelings, understanding your inner being - that’s the scene today. Get with it, NYPost.
The solution is to get rid of the test.
The worst part is that many of these kids will go to college.
“Kids were stupified by these questions,”
They were stupified BEFORE the questions.
I’d call that educational success - they have the knowledge and critical reasoning skills needed to vote democrat for life. And beyond.
It’s New York Jake
NYC has much to be proud of, starting with a Communist Mayor and the NYT.
They are not taught correct English because that would suggest that their English as used at home and in the street is somehow deficient which would be racist. Their home grown English is just as valid as Etonian speech. Any other view is bigoted and racist.
Well clearly there’s only one solution to the problem: The exams need to be dumbed down so they can pass the test and avoid having their self esteem hurt.
That example of a zero is perfectly understandable. It translates as “In New York Sey got invited to a party. Sey was asked because he was going to get an honest dollar bill.”
The kid will go far as a Soros employee.
Statewide, many teachers and parents have complained the tests were ill-suited to a child’s age and development: “The result was 8-and 9-year-olds sitting for hours upon hours in frustration, crying and in some cases becoming physically sick,” said Carl Korn, a spokesman for the state teachers’ union.
Obviously, we need more Common Core and safe spaces from testing activities that test Common Core efficacy.
Oh, a third grader. I thought it was another example of Chrissy Ford’s writings.