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On 11/05/15, T wrote:
>
> Teachers are teaching to the test because
> that is what the state wants. When your
> career rests in the hands of test scores
> the tests becomes the curriculum. It is
> not just the inner city schools either.
> My daughter who attends a rural school
> had to complete 2 point responses every
> night for homework last year. They read
> non-fiction passages, not books, all
> year. The goal is to dumb them down so
> they can't think for themselves. State a
> claim, find evidence from the text to
> support your claim. There is no more
> text to self thinking, background
> knowledge, or making connections to the
> text. As David Coleman says " No one
> gives a s@$t what you think."

To dumb them down, you say. Is this not
evil? I was a sub teacher for 8 years. I
left for many years but mainly because I
could no longer see the corrupt system steal
a solid education from students who
desperately need to learn and prepare for
life. To keep people ignorant is evil in
every which way.
>
>
> On 11/05/15, harpazo wrote:
>> Students in NYC public schools are not
>> learning, especially in the ghetto
> areas.
>> They are promoted from grade to grade
>> without preparation. Parents have no
> idea
>> what is going on. It is a vicious cycle
> that
>> never ends. Good teachers that want to
> teach
>> are not allowed to do so. Teachers are
>> teaching the test and nothing more.

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