“Certain stress related illness range from asthma, obesity, diabetes, headaches, depression, anxiety, and gastrointestinal problems such as acid reflux” (10 Fixable stress related...). When our researchers went out and asked people about how they felt about these standardized tests they said “... Whenever I take these tests I feel Stressed out and overwhelmed at times. I have gone nights before these tests without sleeping because I have stressed out over it too much” (Is Standardized testing right...). This is a growing problem for our students that needs to be stopped. “Because students know that test scores may affect their future lives, they do whatever they can to pass them, including cheating and taking performance drugs” (What you need to know about...). This habit that these students are getting used to is dangerous and because of these high stakes tests set forth by the state they are almost forced to take these performance enhancing drugs in order to pass the tests. …show more content…
That is big number compared to how long these students are in class. Over the course of 13 years our students are subjected to just over 8 standardized tests a year. Not to include the tests given to them by their teachers that in some classes are weekly. With all these tests the students already have to take why add 8 more every school year of information while some of that information they learned a little less than a year ago. How do we expect our students to be able to retain all that information enough to be tested at the end of the year to determine if they passed the class or