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Scrap It!Yes, I watched Bush "read ... er beg" for Congress to re-up NCLB. Like Governor Richardson said, "Scrap it." Blah, blah, blah, ... Bush trying to "descrabble" test scores is like Bush putting Iraq back together again. Powell was right, and Bush still can't get the numbers straight on either one.
Test scores aren't test scores at all. In grade schools, who knows how a child will feel each day. Every day is different and every testing session is ruled, only, by how much money their parents make. I've been in homes where there were no books, no crayons, no pencils or pens, ... just a television. And those kids are ready to take tests? There is no middle class, any more, so we can already tell which kids will score better.
"Quick, Dubya, define Face Validity, Test Reliability, Error of Measurement, True Test Score, NCE, Bars of Confidence, ...? You can't, can ya'! This whole testing thing is nothing more than another money boondoggle for your rich test companies' CEOs friends." It's time to cut them off of the federal government tits.
How about some of the 100 dollar computers that are going all over the world, except the United States, where we have poor kids and poor parents, too? But, I forgot! NCLB is working.
Taking a month of school off for tests every year is bogus! Scrap the program and scrap it now, ... which will go down as just another failure of the worst president in the history of the United States!
Take the money we are giving the test companies and pay parents to attend teachers' meetings. Ta Dah! The teacher can already tell us how our children "does" reading, and can give us some good ideas on how to raise their reading levels. And teacher conferences don't cost a thing and don't require heavy pressure on students and force students and teachers to take a month off every year.
Yeah, ...what Governor Richardson said!
