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Re: Let's talk standardized tests
Ugh, my high school did this. We were in an adjacent building to the middle school and to stagger the traffic for some reason they decided the high schoolers had to be there at a completely asinine 7:26. WTMF???
I think it's weird when teachers give out "strategies" for standardized test taking. I remember having one who told us that statistically the answer was "c" more often than anything else. That led to an onslaught of kids who bubbled in "c" all the time when we weren't sure of the answer. The gum thing seems similarly odd.
I know you're complaining about specific teachers, but I haven't read all those posts, so I'm just going to comment generally.
From a teacher perspective, standardized tests are scary. I am about to embark on 2 weeks of in class, study hall, and after school reviews. Then our kids take their test on the 29th. I am petrified. I just taught them about Mayan glyphics, and I was like, "What early writing does this remind you of?" A few will say hieroglyphics because they've beaten Egypt to death in the curriculum, but no one will say cuneiform. And then I say it, and ask them what civilization created cuneiform. And they'll drool at me and not say anything. And then I'm all, "OMG IT IS MESOPOTAMIA. PLEASE KNOW THIS IN THREE WEEKS!!!!ELEVENTY!"
And sure, it's hard for them to remember facts from September, and it's hard to test them on the history of the entire world for 6000 years. But you'd better believe that everything handed down from every level is to teach strategies, review to death, etc.
It's really far worse for the teachers than it is for the kids. Truly.
Lurker here. I just so happen to be a teacher, too. A good one.
Not to mention...
I am the 99%.
Sure, let's work with that premise.
Good teachers dictate letters to the children to send home to their parents letting them know their child will sit in the hallway during the Christmas party if the parents do not send in cookies and $5 five days before the party. (This is a low income area where a high percentage of children qualify for free school lunch, btw.)
Good teachers single out children in the class to tell everyone what it's like to be a certain ethnicity and celebrate Christmas differently than everyone else.
Good teachers wait nine weeks to relay to parents behavioral issues in the class because they figure they'll grow out of it.
Good teachers do not return phone calls or reply to notes sent into the teacher when issues are presented to them (namely referring to my child as Mexican and asking him to speak for the entire culture. FWIW, he isn't Mexican.)
Good teachers don't look you in the eye when you are speaking to them at a school function and in fact, barely acknowledge your child's presence at said event. (And no, I hadn't had any issues with her before this point so she wasn't ducking what you assume is just a BSC parent.)
Good teachers use the phrase diarrhea of the mouth incorrectly in front of the whole class when referring to a student and no, it wasn't my kid but the point still stands. It's inappropriate.
Good teachers regularly scream at their students and argue with the gifted teacher when she tells the former that she cannot punish a student by not allowing them to go to gifted class, particularly when she's punishing the class as a whole and not the individual student. (This one came from a substitute, one of numerous my child has had since his teacher is regularly absent from the classroom.)
My kids have without a doubt had good teachers in the past. Unfortunately, they don't this year.
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Also, to clarify, the song wasn't to teach a concept. Lord knows songs are the only reason I can remember all kinds of information like how a bill gets to capitol hill, the books of the bible, the life cycle of bugs, etc.
This particular little rap was about how you needed to pass the CRCT to succeed in life. Holla!
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Can you pretty please tell how "diarrhea of the mouth" was used incorrectly?
or do you mean it was incorrect that it was used at all? But I really, really want it to be the first case, ok?
I do think it's inappropriate to use it at all but if you are going to, you should at least get it right lol.
She used it to refer to the fact that the kids talk a lot. I'm pretty sure the phrase refers to constantly saying inappropriate things and not being able to stop yourself.
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