Portland High School students protest standardized testing (principal, teachers, systems)

[silibran]

Cleveland High School students protest standardized testing | OregonLive.com This is the second of these this Spring in Portland. I don't see this covered except locally.

I am interested to see if it becomes a national movement. I think the students have a valid point. Standardized tests are not complete gauges of intelligence or academic prowess. Often schools resort to teaching the tests, instead of teaching the subject.

[tjay]

Woohoo! Hope this happens more and more. Standardized tests are WRONG.

[AGG1659]

That's great! I hope it works out for THEM.

[psikeyhackr]

Is there any way to obtain any of these tests even if they are old ones that are not currently used?

Just because a test is standardized doesn't mean it is not stupid. I don't understand how they can spend so much money coming up with standardized tests but can't make a Standardized Suggested Reading List for much less, unless it is really just about the money and education is not that important.

psik

[Clevelander17]

And in Chicago:

Chicago students boycott standardized test in protest of mass school closings

[Everdeen]

This began from an off shoot of the Seattle teachers protesting standardized testing.

[AnotherTouchOfWhimsy]

Good. If the students and parents refuse to comply with the absurdity that defines all of this testing, then maybe the face of "education" will change!

[Oldhag1]

Originally Posted by AGG1659

That's great! I hope it works out for THEM.

I hope it spreds and works out for everyone. We are testing them to death and killing education in the process.

[Everdeen]

When the Seattle teachers refused to give the test, I posted the news article in the "Teacher Chat" Section of our school's email system.

My principal promptly removed it.

[marigolds6]

Unfortunately, the evaluations systems are designed to badly hurt schools where this happens. It is only a matter of time before a cascade of sanctions hit these schools, forcing firings, closures, loss of funding, etc. Once those hit in force, you will see these protests end one way or another. I would not be surprised to see a state create criminal penalties for skipping a test.