15 Reasons Why Standardized Testing Are Worthless

standard curriculum. All teachers must abide by the common core curriculum as well as promote students to get high scores on standardized testing in order to receive more funding for school activities. Mr. Hwong, however, believes that standardized testing is an unfair test to students based on knowledge that is designed “teach for the test” rather than teach for undestanding. Just as it states in Armstrong’s article, 15 Reasons Why Standardized Tests are Worthless, Standardized tests do not provide any feedback on how students can perform better, it does not value creativity in students, and it favors those who have socio-economical advantages. Mr. Hwong believes that it limits what the teacher is allowed to teach and constricts the student’s

For students with special needs, there is a required homeroom class that they must enroll in. This class is headed by an instructor with specific skills on how to accommodate to students with special needs and special learning disabilities. “Since the population of special needs students is quite small and there are 6 periods of classes throughout the day to fit with all the students schedules. The special needs program at Arroyo is quite beneficial and efficient”, said Mr. Hwong. Students with special needs also move to this class when they are taking a test in another class to remove distraction or need to be in a safe area to concentrate. Mr. Hwong also stated that there is a large influx of Hispanic and Asian immigrant students enrolling at Arroyo who are learning English as a second language. Arroyo also provides an excellent ESL program. This ESL program is separated into different levels of difficulty; depending on the students ability of English language. These classes are correspondent with the student’s other classes such as Math and Science. “Many ESL students pick up English right away and begin to use it in their daily lives however, others are not confident when speaking,” said Mr. Hwong, “When I speak to some of them privately when they attend my after-school hours, they often tell me they do not want to speak because they are embarrassed of their accents. They are scared that the other students will judge them on their ability to speak English.” This hurt Mr. Hwong on a personal level; the thought of students being embarrassed by their accents when they try to speak English was also a personal conflict when Mr. Hwong was younger. Since he did immigrate from another country without knowing much English, he understands the struggles they are going through. To put