Standardized Test Argument

Ever since the standardized test was first introduced, it began to suck out the creativity from school and forced all teachers to teach the same material to every students nationwide. It has long been theorized that no two minds are the same and if you ask parent with more than one children they will confirm it. So why teach the same thing to every student when even siblings don’t have the same mindset and learning patterns? President Obama said himself “Teachers should not be forced to spend the academic year preparing students to fill in bubbles on standardized test”. The idea of the test was first introduced back in 1914 by Frederick J. Kelly and little changes have been made to improve upon it since then.Standardized testing should be
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This is a really powerful statement and it articulates it’s not what's you're measuring isn't really what is needed to me measure, to reiterate on what he is saying, is to basically say they're not counting what you know but only a small percentage of what you were taught. Additionally the article also stated “ Students’ abilities can be evaluated in many, creative ways. The idea that every student take the same test at the same time is nothing more than the warmed-over factory model of education used in the 1950s, now laughingly called “education reform.”. This explain a lot, it can be said that the way students are seated inside a classroom reassemble Henry Ford's assembly line. For those who don’t know the assembly line was created by Henry Ford to keep factories organized by placing everything in a straight line so by organizing the classroom kin the same manner that factories are organized, there is a connection that school is preparing those who could not pass its standardized test for working in the factories. Plus it treats kids like factory workers while they’re in school. Also, where do you think most of the kids that flunk out of school go nowadays: factory jobs or jail/prison? People call it the ‘school to prison …show more content…
Even though these thing are true there’s still a lot of flaws with standardized testing such as kids who are just bad test takers, boring article, and the whole process just being messy. The article called the Pro And Con Of Standardized Testing made an important declaration. They declared, “Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) only focuses on whether a student is proficient at the time of testing. This does a disservice to both the teacher who worked hard to help their students grow and the student who worked extremely hard over the course of the year and improved tremendously but failed to score proficient” this is the biggest flaw of testing since it only count a small percent and not the whole thing and that’s injustice to both student and teachers.
In conclusion standardized testing is a messy process that greatly affect students future and it should be stop to allow kids to further pursue their creative talents and bring something new to the