Standardized Testing Contradicts The Goal Of The Education System
Thinking is sacrificed, creativity is boxed, and originality is outscored. Answers to life problems? Those cannot be bubbled in. Every where in United States, students are getting out their No. 2 pencils, ready to undergo a stress-packed, four hours, of bubbling in answers. Standardized tests have been a burden of students’ life for over fifty years. However, it contradicts the goal of the education system. The goal of the education system is to prepare young people to live in a world that is rapidly changing. Trying to create adults who can compete in the global economy through standardized testing, will inevitably fail. Students, who have grown up in an era of testing, will have trouble adapting to the real world and solving real life problems.
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Many schools mandate that too many tests are taken, and not enough learning happens. Schools are suppose to be a place where students learn to fail, ask questions, and search for answers –all natural human traits that allow students to grow. A poem by …. Supports why Standardized testing should be eliminated. One of the lines for the poem states, “ A compassionate child who wants to learn the injustices of this world. The creative child whose teacher says, “we don’t have time for that.” This illustrates that students are achieving bare minimum thinking for themselves, because teachers only teach what is going to be on the test. Students want more than just memorizing information and acing the tests, they want to learn about the world and how their traits could help the world. These tests have no effect on the student’s success in the future. Instead of allowing the students to think outside the box, dream big, and potentially change the world; students are forced to follow a strict curriculum. If we neglect creative students in school because of the structure and the testing movement, then they become underachievers. Students are missing the motivation, the courage, and the originality because these tests conform students to have the same mindset. Rather than lowering student’s creativity, we should strengthen the student’s natural abilities and help them grow into a successful adult that can survive in the
Many schools mandate that too many tests are taken, and not enough learning happens. Schools are suppose to be a place where students learn to fail, ask questions, and search for answers –all natural human traits that allow students to grow. A poem by …. Supports why Standardized testing should be eliminated. One of the lines for the poem states, “ A compassionate child who wants to learn the injustices of this world. The creative child whose teacher says, “we don’t have time for that.” This illustrates that students are achieving bare minimum thinking for themselves, because teachers only teach what is going to be on the test. Students want more than just memorizing information and acing the tests, they want to learn about the world and how their traits could help the world. These tests have no effect on the student’s success in the future. Instead of allowing the students to think outside the box, dream big, and potentially change the world; students are forced to follow a strict curriculum. If we neglect creative students in school because of the structure and the testing movement, then they become underachievers. Students are missing the motivation, the courage, and the originality because these tests conform students to have the same mindset. Rather than lowering student’s creativity, we should strengthen the student’s natural abilities and help them grow into a successful adult that can survive in the