Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many public school districts are now giving standardized tests during school. When I took the SATs, you have to sign up for it, pay and then take it at the crack of dawn on a Saturday. Who took the test? Students headed to college. Who didn't take the test? Students not going to college. These days, college is pushed on every student, even if they aren't prepared for it. That's where those scores come from.

Good point. In fact, in my state, in order to receive a high school diploma you must take the SAT your junior year. It is part of the state's mandated curriculum.

So silly! Not everyone wants or needs to go to college. I'm all for education but we need to also do a better job supporting other paths.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it just a signal of what learning was lost during the first 2 years of COVID?

I feel like this year (beginning last spring) everyone snapped back to life as it was preCOVID but our kids really have experienced real learning loss. (And social loss too but that’s another post). Schools need to do more than revert to previous curriculum, but it’s hard for them to pivot (and it’s not on the teachers, they teach the curriculums they are give. It’s the curriculums that need to have a plan for learning catch up. IMO everyone working in the Department of Education (a huge building which must have a huge number of people working there) should be focused on this issue.

+1000

Our school district has not acknowledged learning loss at all. It is just continue with the curriculum, pretend kids didn’t miss a year of progress in virtual and a messed up year of Covid absences/quarantines, etc. Kids have expressed feeling behind and no higher ups care at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many public school districts are now giving standardized tests during school. When I took the SATs, you have to sign up for it, pay and then take it at the crack of dawn on a Saturday. Who took the test? Students headed to college. Who didn't take the test? Students not going to college. These days, college is pushed on every student, even if they aren't prepared for it. That's where those scores come from.

Good point. In fact, in my state, in order to receive a high school diploma you must take the SAT your junior year. It is part of the state's mandated curriculum.

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Anonymous wrote:At least people should discuss the appropriateness of "college for all" when 42% of test takers met NONE of the college readiness benchmarks. We need alternatives that send kids into the world with the capacity to work. If not attending college, they need basic reading and math, along with a vocational skill. But because we are hung up on equity, we would rather pretend that somehow ALL of the kids will become lawyers, and instead graduate illiterates.

Where do you get the idea that the U.S. has "college for all"? In 2020, 43% of high school graduates enrolled in 4-year colleges.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least people should discuss the appropriateness of "college for all" when 42% of test takers met NONE of the college readiness benchmarks. We need alternatives that send kids into the world with the capacity to work. If not attending college, they need basic reading and math, along with a vocational skill. But because we are hung up on equity, we would rather pretend that somehow ALL of the kids will become lawyers, and instead graduate illiterates.

Where do you get the idea that the U.S. has "college for all"? In 2020, 43% of high school graduates enrolled in 4-year colleges.

Anonymous wrote:At least people should discuss the appropriateness of "college for all" when 42% of test takers met NONE of the college readiness benchmarks. We need alternatives that send kids into the world with the capacity to work. If not attending college, they need basic reading and math, along with a vocational skill. But because we are hung up on equity, we would rather pretend that somehow ALL of the kids will become lawyers, and instead graduate illiterates.

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it just a signal of what learning was lost during the first 2 years of COVID?

I feel like this year (beginning last spring) everyone snapped back to life as it was preCOVID but our kids really have experienced real learning loss. (And social loss too but that’s another post). Schools need to do more than revert to previous curriculum, but it’s hard for them to pivot (and it’s not on the teachers, they teach the curriculums they are give. It’s the curriculums that need to have a plan for learning catch up. IMO everyone working in the Department of Education (a huge building which must have a huge number of people working there) should be focused on this issue.