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Originally Posted by rock
Think there is a school district in Europe, if your school has subpar grades/scores, the school gets shut down. I think they are trying this approach as a kind of reform.
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What the hell. School district and Europe in the same sentence. Europe doesn't exactly consist of districts.
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Originally Posted by rock
Though I do not put full blame on teachers, Parent's need to step up (my parent's always pushed me, and also get me things like a microscope as kid, and books whenever I said I wanted to read something and I thank them for that, it got me into the best school in the city/state for high school, and have benefited from it). But also college's that are teaching these new teachers. I have about 15 people I know from high school who are now teachers. 6 different colleges between them, but all of them were taught they have to teach for standardized testing and nothing else. That is what is killing this country eductation system. We are so tied up with standardized testing, they are not teaching the same things I learned, which really was not that long ago.
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While I agree on the lures of standardization of tests, I don't really get how standardized tests contribute to them not teaching the SAME things you learned.