High School Guide: Admissions, reviews, and advice

These were essentially trial runs for national exams. They could easily be implemented as graduation requirements—testing English, math, and maybe one or two electives. There is really no reason to scrutinize eight different subjects like they did this year...

The concept behind national testing isn't flawed. It serves as a necessary reality check to see which schools are actually performing and where grades don't align with actual proficiency. It helps identify where students are pulling straight A's despite having no grasp of the material...

hiddendriver34 said:hiddendriver34, man, if we actually did that, you’d see. Everything would stay pretty much the same—kids would still be doing their work and taking tests—but the whole point would shift. Instead of just being a grade on a screen, those tests would act more like a GPS for the students, giving them actual feedback to help them find their way.

I mean, sure, that works if we're talking about standardized national exams. But if teachers are the ones drafting their own tests, things get messy—some might be a breeze while others are brutal—so the actual picture of what everyone knows could end up being pretty skewed.

Honestly, I’d put my money on the professor's tests. 😉

hiddendriver34 said:Standardized testing would take a massive weight off the shoulders of elementary school teachers—if parents could just stop complaining to the local water utility and go organize some protests outside the National Science Foundation instead.

After reading chiquitin's post, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d honestly rather be working a construction site than teaching in an elementary school. 😁

I was actually just looking at a job posting for a heavy equipment assistant.

If the excavator can't handle it, I'll just fix it with a shovel :rofl

Carl Bishop2 said:I mean, sure, that works if we're talking about standardized national exams. But if teachers are the ones drafting their own tests, things get messy—some might be a breeze while others are brutal—so the actual picture of what everyone knows could end up being pretty skewed.

Don't you see? I take a text based on my students' specific interests and then build grammar and spelling exercises right around it...