Testing the test scores
I have interviewed
several teachers about the governmental need to get and to keep American test
scores high. According to these teachers and educators the program which was
implemented by former President George W. Bush “No student left behind”, has placed
a great burden on them.
These educators
claim that education has become a political issue instead of a learning one.
They are being squeezed and pressured by their school administrators to pass
students that should and need to be held back a year or maybe even more in
order to grasp the concepts being taught to them. The pressure being applied to
the teachers to pass students is in order to keep the funds from the federal
government coming into the district coffers.
I can honestly see
why the government wants to educate the students. I think it was for good and
honorable reasons, but as usual money has corrupted the entire system. Greed on
the part of the school districts and politicians’ has took what was an issue
with good and proper intentions and turned it into a money making cookie cutter
educational system that in my opinion needs drastic reforming.
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