I read a blog today about PARCC testing. The teacher wrote an open letter to her students apologizing for making them take this test. She does not believe the test is beneficial and seems very torn up about having to administer it. This made me think about when I will have to administer standardized tests. I agree that they are not helping students-rather substantially hurting them. As much as I would love to rip up all of the tests, I won't be able to. As a teacher, I will be responsible for administering these tests, watching children struggle and be stressed out. I will be responsible for stressing my students out. That is not what education should be about. Administering standardized tests will be one of, if not THE, hardest part of my job.
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