School Assessments

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School assessments should be abolished. The job of the school is to 'teach' us. They should not be able to assess every single student and then determine what they know and don't know. The testing requirements from the school official board and the testing we have in courses should be abolished. Assessing does not sure intelligence but memorization. Intelligence comes from free-thinking, creativity, ideas and opinions. Not from testing. The testing ic ourses are meant to assess what you know, but the teachers don't even give you back your replies after they grade it. Oc course they might hand you back the other sheet and that shows you how many you got right, but you do not actually know the questions. So assessing us is pointless in courses because how are we supposed to be 'taught' when we don't even know the questions. The school board should be abolished. The school officials think that they know the students, that they know what we need to be 'taught' to be 'successful'. But 'success' is subjective, meaning it means different things for different people. But of course the media had taught everybody their opinions and what to think about things, so free-thinking really isn't happening. The things we read in textboks are government-approved details that are irrelevant to our daily lives. We do not understand the broad concept of things because textbooks write it in a way that we do not understand what they are saying (Ted).
They give one side of the stories. They are American biased.
They only teach us that college is the only direction. In example, two teachers told me that we will have to go to college to even become a construction worker nowadays. They do not teach us about what we can do after high school and not go to college.
The society and economy is changing and a college degree won't mean anything soon. We should be getting ready for the future.
Share your opinions- you're entitled to it.

[LadyKira]

(02-09-2013 02:05 AM)Këîtágâmìî Wrote:  School assessments should be abolished. The job of the school is to 'teach' us. They should not be able to assess every single student and then determine what they know and don't know. The testing requirements from the school official board and the testing we have in courses should be abolished. Assessing does not sure intelligence but memorization. Intelligence comes from free-thinking, creativity, ideas and opinions. Not from testing. The testing ic ourses are meant to assess what you know, but the teachers don't even give you back your replies after they grade it. Oc course they might hand you back the other sheet and that shows you how many you got right, but you do not actually know the questions. So assessing us is pointless in courses because how are we supposed to be 'taught' when we don't even know the questions. The school board should be abolished. The school officials think that they know the students, that they know what we need to be 'taught' to be 'successful'. But 'success' is subjective, meaning it means different things for different people. But of course the media had taught everybody their opinions and what to think about things, so free-thinking really isn't happening. The things we read in textboks are government-approved details that are irrelevant to our daily lives. We do not understand the broad concept of things because textbooks write it in a way that we do not understand what they are saying (Ted).
They give one side of the stories. They are American biased.
They only teach us that college is the only direction. In example, two teachers told me that we will have to go to college to even become a construction worker nowadays. They do not teach us about what we can do after high school and not go to college.
The society and economy is changing and a college degree won't mean anything soon. We should be getting ready for the future.
Share your opinions- you're entitled to it.

I hate assessments! I had to take one today for English! It was so annoying! Also, they are putting more reading and writing into our subjects(Even Art!).