When I was in the tenth grade, I wrote an original oratory to compete with on the speech and debate team. The topic was standardized testing originally, but I quickly realized that testing was not the problem; the American public education system is fundamentally flawed. I had falsely assumed that standardized tests were the reason others my age lacked curiosity when it is so much more involved than that. …show more content…
I also learned about things like the New York Performance Standards Consortium which uses project based assessment instead of the normal standardized test. My overall reaction was shock. I had no idea that our school systems were failing that badly. For a short while I was inspired to become a teacher, but I quickly noticed how the teachers are repeatedly ignored and even chastised for showing interest in improving the current