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See, here's hte problem that i have with standardized testing. I think it ENCOURAGES the memorize and regurgitate method of education. I graduated in the top 25 of my highschool class, and, although my math was pounded in in a way that it was actually learned, my english, spanish, history, even some of hte science, were all rote memorization. And now that there's the Star tests (the standardized testing here in Cali), I'm seeing it move even MORE towards teaching to the test. Why can't advanced classes do more... interesting? things? as a freshman in highschool, my younger sister is STILL going over basic grammar! and ya know what, she is still having trouble with it!
I dunno what the solution is, but I don't think all this standardized testing is it. Yes, funding needs balanced. Yes, we need to pay teachers more! there aren't enough, and those that there are, aren't getting enough for the tons of work they put into it. Yes parents need to get more involved. Six and BoCo were saying "it's just the jocks, the partiers, the druggies, and the kids w/ dysfunctional families" irony is, that's every damn child I have ever seen enter a classroom. That is reality. It's not that children who party do worse in school, I've seen plenty who did fine. it's not those with 2 parent families do better, I've seen plenty of them flunk. There has to be something else there.
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