Asphyxiating Education

[sulphurdunn]

11. No, we really don't want to give this a chance.

We've gone way beyond teaching to the test. The system has finally arrived where I figured it was headed as early as 2000. With days lost to weather this winter and the inflexibility of standardized testing schedules, I am spending more time administering tests than I am preparing students to take them. The result will be lower pass rates, more political interference, more teacher scapegoating, and more evidence that public schools are failing and need more of the same reforms that have caused them to need reform. The word that comes to mind is Kafkaesque.