[DB]

The truth is the test scores reflect on the school as much as they do the kid. The principle was acting in his own self interest in trying to make the school look better ahead of the interest of the child.

[Chief Engineer]

The kid was acting in the best interests of the principal. He was afraid that he would make fun of him.

Then the principal turns around and penalized him for his concern.

[Antioch]

Where I live, the real problem is kids in the public school system know teacher's can't fail them. There isn't even such a thing anymore as a "F" or and "fail." It has been replaced by the weasel-phrase "needs improvement" which won't send those poor innocent children into a shame spiral.

When I went to public school the standardized test wasn't an enormous layer of bureaucracy for testing schools, but rather your grade in the class. if you got less than 50% overall, you had to repeat the grade. Perhaps 1-2 in 30 children didn't make the cut. ALL these children pulled up their socks in subsequent years, such was the stigma for the child and the parents. There were consequences, expected standards and truth. No one seems to ask why these testing schemes are SUDDENLY indispensable. The old-fashioned methods of primary school education were perfectly capable of producing literate and disciplined kids.

[moehoward]

"The truth is the test scores reflect on the school as much as they do the kid. The principle was acting in his own self interest in trying to make the school look better ahead of the interest of the child."

Exactly. They are fanatical about WASL testing here.

[razorback-bert]

That was my first thought too.

Anything written would have been acceptable/passable and nothing written would be failing the school.


Whatever happened to what I did on my summer vacation?