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Originally Posted by MountainMike
If you are talking about public schools, absolutely "NO!"
students are taught specifically toward the tests the states issue in order to get high scores. Most of those questions on those tests are multiple choice. That means filling in bubbles with a no.2 lead pencil. Teachers and administrators can lose their jobs if the students do not perform well.
Good question to raise right now, because the re authorization of "No Child Left Behind" - Bush's education policy that started all of this test score mania is being debated in congress. It needs to be voted down as way too much time, energy and money is being spent on testing each year. In the process, all of those enriching experiences in school are discarded, such as hands on science experiments, fine arts, music and other areas are ignored.
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I completely disagree with the No Child Left Behind Act. Students are so focused on the tests that they forget about the actual learning. It puts too much presure on teachers who can't force the children to want to learn. Teachers have had to resort to becoming comedians in order to get their students attention. This act does not help anyone. The government should be giving the funding to the schools with low test scores not the other way around. Funding motivates the teachers, not the students who know nothing about the act. What were they thinking when they put this act into place? I can almost hear them saying it-This state has low test scores, so let's cut the funding and make it worse, oh, and let's blame the teachers because their only teaching those of the future of this country.