Re: Internecine Testing Industry Warfare - 1,044

[Carol Holst <kceh@airmail.net>]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 06:16 AM, ShopMathEdu@aol.com wrote:

> When we paint a picture of "America," let's paint the whole picture.
>
> That's the whole problem with standards.  Whose standards?  It's not 
> just the
> test, but the standards behind the test, which sorts folks out and 
> casts poor
> and working class kids away.  The "assessment" is the outward symbol of 
> the
> problem.  We need to begin focusing on the inhumane "standards" behind 
> the
> assessment.

Thanks for the sad reminder, Steve. I don't mean to drag the 
pre-testing-season-organizing-overdue-but-finally-happening-Texas-rally 
euphoria down, but the students and teachers who have been hurt by this 
craziness are going to be with us for a long time. What are we going to 
do for those who were born "substandard" to "substandard" parents to 
lead "substandard" lives they believe (because they have been carefully 
taught) they deserve?

Carol