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April 10, 2003
As this ship of education
As this ship of education sails blindly towards the rocks of standardized testing, I'm wondering who is captaining the ship. Heck, I'm wondering who put us on this course in the first place. I've abandoned any pretense of teaching real information, as I am required to teach test-taking techniques for the remaining weeks until the tests. Our school has spent thousands on test materials from Kaplan and TWO other programs, yet we will lose all of our custodians, cafeteria workers, and assistants next year. We don't have enough money for any of my kids to be able to take their hardcover books home (I have one classroom set), yet we buy disposable products for a math test that has been shown to be massively flawed. My kids are bored, hypersaturated with information undiluted by comprehension, and will have their lives defined on a score of 1 to 4.
On the fun side, I was grading papers tonight, and came across a late homework produced by a student who was ill last week. She had written the comment 'asbent' to explain the lateness of the homework. I'm not saying anything.
Posted by G at April 10, 2003 10:30 PM