Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:there is zero reason to put your elementary school child through up to 15+ hours of "lockdown"testing. none.
An obvious reason. One of the main purposes of school is to prepare kids for life, and life, is full of standardized tests.
I'm all for letting them get experience with testing before the tests start really mattering.
Life is not full of standardized tests for private school students. Parents pay big bucks for private education and those schools are not beholden to SOLs. The average VA student will take 100+ standardized tests from K-12. Add up all the tests and practice tests from K-12 and you will be astonished. On the other hand private schools are under their own private accreditation systems that use multiple measures to evaluate schools.
In other words the children of the elite all Opt Out, because their kids don't take these tests. John King (current Secretary of Ed) and Arne Duncan (fomer secretary of Ed), Bill Gates (founder of Common Core), Obama (race to the top), etc. all send their kids to private schools that rely largely on teacher grades to assess kids.
Begs the question, why are public school students inundated with these meaningless tests? (back to Pear$on ever earning) and the effort to privatize public education. The testing industry earns in the billions annually. They've got an army of lobbyists who have the ear of our legislatures. We need to be vocal. We need to reclaim education. We need to demand teaching not testing.
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