Arguments Against Standardized Testing

Let’s face schools have put too much emphasis on standardized tests. Schools make too much unnecessary tests which was judging them by students test scores. If schools have less test we will have more high achieving students. There is also a lot of unfair logic about the students and the schools. That’s why I think schools are placing too much emphasis on standardized tests. My first reason supporting that schools are placing too much emphasis on standardized testing is that schools make too much unnecessary tests. Schools have annual testing and if the school did not get good test scores they would suffer severe consequences. Sadly, the poor test takers or students that were so frustrated preparing for the test. Would be reflect on the teacher and the school. These excessive bad grades will lead the school to being closed down and a lost jobs. And this program is coming out of tax payer dollars

If students have a test every month that test going to define their school it’s going to make tem nervous and less confident leading to a bad grade. Susie Morrison superintendent of Illinois says “some assessments in local districts should go away.” Some of those test are like the Stanford-9 exam, which has instructions if a student vomits on it. This makes more wasted tax payer dollars in something that defines a school wrongly. Finally, there is a lot of unfair logic, for example, if students are not paying attention and are bad students. Some of them are bad test takers or/and overwhelmed by the frequent tests. They would get a bad grade reflecting on the teacher and it might be a very good teacher. Even, if it was a bad teacher and the student studies and are smart. They might be masking a not so good teacher. Jenson a teacher and mother of two kids in school says “My son make his teachers look bad and they work so hard for him.” She also claimed her son was a good student but a bad test