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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is utterly hilarious. I'm sure parents of children at private schools all over the DC Metro area are laughing hysterically at the notion that PARCC testing is key to children being successful. It is my understanding that there are people who are paid to come and shill for the testing machine on social media.  It has to be that, because it seems hard to believe that anyone could be so stupid as to believe that the PARCC has any impact on anything other than the ability to punish teachers. Oh, it also makes money for Pearson shareholders, right?[/quote]

[b]It's not so hilarious that we have been graduating millions of kids each year who are at best semi-literate, who can't make change, who can't point out the Pacific Ocean on a world map, who are barely employable, who either can't get into college or who would need serious remediation if they did.[/b]

Sadly you can't see beyond your own myopic, self-centered ideas to understand there's a whole lot more at stake here than your quaint little notions about "teachers being punished" or "Pearson shareholders..."  :roll:[/quote]

But nothing I see regarding this test will help solve your concerns.  The PARCC testing is eating up an enormous chunk of the school year and is not going to help these kids suceed.  Although each student may have only 10 days of testing but I know that at our school at least the testing and testing arrangements are consuming the energies of the administration, specialist and teachers - even more so at schools without extra teachers hired by PTAs.  And the kids are going to struggle to even read and understand these tests - much less take them.  And fasced with this seemingly hopeless struggle many just give up.  I am dreading proctoring these exams - it is so disheartening to watch students be further shamed by testing.  The resources and time these tests use would be much better spent teaching these kids, tutoring the ones who need extra help, bringing back sucessful programs such as Head Start.

I applaud any parents how protest this test by not allowing their children to participate.[/quote]

+1 If tests actually helped students improve skills and increase knowledge, I would be all for them.  But, it doesn't work that way.  [/quote]

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