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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have yet to see any really good defense of the standards.  My problem:  it fosters the belief that kids come to the teacher on a plane.  They don't.[/quote]

No, all children don't start out with the same abilities, knowledge, intellectual capacity, and skills, which I assume is what you mean by "kids come to the teacher on a plane".

You *could* build a system that set different goals for different groups of children based on where they were at the start of the year and what their presumed intellectual capacity was.   But then you would not be creating uniform grade level standards.

"By the end of their 3rd grade year, students should have mastered the times table to the 9s" -- that's a uniform standard and an expectation of all students.   If the students haven't reached that standard, they are behind where they should be.

In the past, states have had standards for each grade level, but the standards were not uniform -- [b]each state had its own standard[/b].  [/quote]

And that was a problem. It causes disparity in education, and can make it difficult for kids that move from state to state.   My DCs experienced this.  Crazy that a person can live in one country but have to deal with different educational standards from one place to another.[/quote]

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