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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean, "it's a start"?

PP, how do you know your kids are actually being taught anything at all if you throw away assessment and metrics?

Basically, all I'm hearing with that is "don't hold these kids to any standards, because they are poor".  It's the same type of lame complacency and handwaving excuse making that defends rape culture by saying "boys will be boys".

You're going to have to try a lot harder with your argument against standardized testing.[/quote]

who said anything about "throw[ing] away testing and metrics?"  I'm referring to the kill and drill preparation for DC-CAS that serves mainly to assess teachers, not students.

Teachers are assessing students everyday without standardized testing and could have much more quality time to teach kids if so much preparation for DC-CAS was not required.

The kind of standardized testing I support is the kind that President Obama referred to that his kids got at Sidwell -- the kids weren't even informed in advance that they would be taking a test - no preparation, no bribes, no anxiety, and no threats to school community that their jobs were on the line based on the outcome of kids' tests.[/quote]

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