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I don't get that argument at all.  Why is it "drill and kill"?  The material on the standardized tests should be incidental to and a subset of what kids are supposed to be learning anyways regardless of standardized testing.  For example, at certain grade levels, you need to know your grammar facts, you need to know basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, order of operations and so on.  Why is it that everyone seems to act as though standardized testing is forcing kids into doing something different from the things they would ordinarily be expected to have learned anyways?   The only reason why it would be "drill and kill" is if teaching of all of the prior material was horribly botched the first time around, creating the need for cramming to make up for it.  In which case, ALL you have left is botched teaching.[/quote]

It's not an argument - it's a fact.  Perhaps it "shouldn't" be drill and kill, but that's what it is, because that's what the administration requires.  Teachers don't like it.  Many parents who are involved with their child's education don't like it, either, but they put up with it.[/quote]

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