Lists | [no subject] : CA-RESISTERS : March 2008

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Here ya go folks. This article will take an iron stomach to swallow at first. However!----breathe deeply and then send in a letter. I did, and it made me feel much better:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-esch23mar23,0,5308741.story


My response:

Regarding Camille Esch's editorial, she is dead wrong about using test scores to judge teacher quality. There is no evidence in the first place that proves they state anything about what a child knows and is able to do.  Therefore, they are meaningless in terms of gauging quality teaching. Secondly, I find it quite offensive that she suggests that we use a ?well-rounded? approach to assessing teachers, yet the students who are the focus of the education process are not afforded the same means. The fact that she says we could ?show growth? over the entire year, implies even more testing, which would continue to suck the life out of U.S. classrooms. Energy needs to be focused on developing quality human beings, not testing-robots that are easliy controlled by corporate interests that support her idea, and who wish to profit off of the dismantling of the public school system. 


Joseph Lucido
Educators and Parents Against Test Abuse
Fresno, CA