Timed Testing Persuasive Essay

With all the testing the state put schoolkids through they are not able to properly prepare for real life so many schools are focused on teaching how to pass that test so you can move on to the next grade or be forced to retake the test if you were to ask students how to open a checking account not many of them would not know the answer they would most likely say that their parents did it for them the schools are more focused on taking the test and get that money than they are about the futures of their students. For instance our school bought 5 or 6 televisions and they are rarely you used they are either broken such as the one in the cafeteria or are showing outdated information when the money could be properly used on textbooks that aren't
falling apart.
I always hear about how my parents took driver’s ed at their school which was a effective for people to learn how to drive during their class which helped them learn about functioning in the outside
world. We are stuck taking test that in no way test our knowledge about relevant knowledge just fact we learn from from repeated drilling into heads we are in no way prepared for balancing a checkbook, buying a house, or doing your taxes. Privates schools are exempt from state testing which leaves them with the time to properly educate their students for life outside of school making them much more ready for the outside world .
With the old T.A.K.S. test you only had to pass 4 test now with the STAAR you have to take 15 test throughout your entire career and if you were to fail you could be denied graduation from high school many people say the vocabulary used by the Staar can be challenging for certain people to comprehend. Timed test add pressure unlike TAKS tests, STAAR EOC assessments are timed tests with a strict 4-hour limit, increasing stress levels for students. Like the TAKS tests before them, STAAR tests will present the greatest challenge to students already hampered by less fortunate circumstances. Low-income students typically begin school far less preparation than their wealthier counterparts (“fed and read to” is the common shorthand). In addition, schools located in low-income areas often have the greatest turnover among teachers and administrators. Standardized tests are an unreliable measure of student performance. A 2001 study published by the Brookings Institution found that 50-80% of year-over-year test score improvements were temporary and "caused by
fluctuations. Standardized tests are an unreliable measure of student performance. Standardized tests measure only a small portion of what makes education meaningful standardized tests cannot measure include "creativity, critical thinking, resilience, motivation, persistence, curiosity, endurance, reliability, enthusiasm, empathy, self-awareness, self-discipline, leadership, civic-mindedness, courage, compassion, resourcefulness, sense of beauty, sense of wonder, honesty, integrity. Teacher are so focused on drilling all the information that it puts all the information in our heads and students can soak up all the knowledge because they are constantly being taught new things.