Posted on 03/06/2015 5:46:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Students across the country are required to take an annual Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC test, which is aligned with Common Core standards. For students in New Mexico, scoring on PARCC exams determine 50 percent of their grade.
Connor Guiney and Anna Bentham-Grey appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” and admitted they were surprised by the size of the walkout at Highland High School in Albuquerque . . .
“We thought maybe 100, or 150 would come out. But by the end of the day we had over 300 people and that was really good to have all that support out there. It was nice to not be alone in that” . . .
“We weren’t the only ones,” Bentham-Grey said. “Almost every other school in our district also had walkouts that day” . . .
“We feel like the tests are unnecessary and they use an excess amount of time among other things,” he said. “But ultimately they’re unfair to students at schools and to the teachers as well.” (Read more about the Common Core rebellion HERE)
Ah hahahahaha, serves Communist Core right.
You go, young bucks and buck-ettes!
In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
If there's a 'common core', it is the rotten one of the DOE, which MUST be abolished.
In Florida, as the text is mandatory, kids are signing in, then submitting the test uncompleted.
These tests sound like a precursor to the old Soviet tests kids would take that would determine their future in the worker’s paradise. Nauseating.
I often wonder what they would have done to me in the Soviet system. I was a late bloomer. I ‘mostly’ hated school up until I was a junior in college (went for EE) and started taking all of my electives. From there, I did really well.
The Soviets probably would have thrown me in a ditch at the age of 16 :-). This Common Core test sounds like it would do the same thing as I never took any of that garbage in high school seriously. Come to think of it, I rarely took anything high school related seriously :-).
The first question is "Why?"
If the kids are doing this as a protest why do they feel entitled to challenge standardized testing? Standardized testing has been part of the educational institution for generations. PSAT, SAT College Boards and state competency tests have been administered for years.
I doubt the kids are experienced enough to organize something like this on the scale it is happening. So the second question is "Who is organizing?" And a follow on to that is again, "Why?"
I suspect that flows back to the teachers who have steadfastly refused to allow a system of metrics to quantify the quality of education they are delivering.
Parents are really unhappy with Common Core.
I do understand these parents are the people and children of people who grew up on protests in the 60's so maybe they are teaching their kids to protest.
In any case, it seems unusual to me that the kids would do this spontaneously and in several places.
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