Standardized tests have played a role in schools across America since the 1800’s, only dwindling citizens of their education and self esteem. Everything a child has learned seems to be measured within a few hours of filling in bubbles. Countless hours of no sleep wondering how to prepare for a test that there is simply no way to prepare for, this is what students undergo year after year. It is time to face reality and take a stand against standardized testing, these tests do not approve students’ achievements, cost too much money, decrease the health of students, and schools spend too much time preparing for them.
Do not approve students achievements
Standardized tests have no goal to approve students’ achievements. The tests provide no feedback on how to improve your scores. The teachers and students will not even receive the results until months later. Grades have only dropped since standardized tests have been given. So what is the purpose of this test one may ask? It seems as if the administrators want to separate the “losers” from the “winners”, only
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It seems as if schools are becoming some sort of “test prep center”. Serravallo says it best when claiming,“I’m concerned about all the time being spent to “prep” kids, when time can be better spent engaging children in authentic, formative assessments” (12). Schools spend more than a quarter of the year strictly preparing for standardized testing, taking away from time spent to better their students’ education. Teachers are getting consumed by pressure and beginning to change their curriculum. They begin “teaching to the test” trying to raise their student’s scores. Valuable lessons are being left behind with only negative results. As schools struggle to raise scores they begin to cut electives for high schoolers, programs in the arts, and recess for younger children, only to focus on subjects that the students will be tested