36 freshly sharpened pencils--all ready for the TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) test!
We had TAKS #1 today--two more in April. These tests are the most important thing to them--it determines whether they pass a grade! It also determines which schools are better than others. If you're REALLY good, you get to hang up a banner on the building for all to see :/
"The solution that TAKS offers is simply another installment in the exhausted effort to compel teachers to produce well-educated students. Ironically, teachers are robbed of creative control of their classrooms and end up forced to teach only what a testing board deems necessary for proper social functioning. Teachers should be freed from the restrictions of testing and be allowed to embrace the talents of their students, which cannot be measured by a multiple choice exam."
I could go on and on about these tests.
I wish there was a better system than standardized testing!
The theme was "Classroom Rants".....right?
