CRCT

I know the CRCT testing is important, and a lot of teachers' careers live and die by the results...but seriously, why should we put so much stress on the kids for a test that really doesn't matter?  The test doesn't tell us how much they know, only how well they preform under stress.

We are getting letters from school telling us how to have them 'study' for the test.  The teachers have spent the last two months 'teaching the test'!  How about teaching them what they need to know for life and let the test take care of itself!

As you can see, this is one of my pet peeves.

In the first grade, there was so much stress put on Miss B for the 'test' (and yes, that year they did not even record the scores.  It was just to teach them what they would be going through in later years!), that she didn't want to even go to school.  The next year, she scored a near 100% on each and every part of the test.

There is enough stuff in a kids life to teach them how to handle stress...do we really need to spend two months out of a school year to teach this skill?

Oh...and the new thing in our school system is to make the year shorter in order to deal with the budget shortfalls!

...now, back to your regular scheduled blog...


Nini