Tests

In the previous three days they were doing some kind of state tests in New York schools. I think this is a statewide thing being applied to every grade. I don't know what the are purposes of these test but I guess it is to determine how smart or not smart the next generation is. These tests are given every school year so the kids should be used to it by now.

This was in the news because there are parents who don't want their children to take these tests. They say there are about 50,000 kids this time kept from taking these tests and their numbers are growing. The reasoning of the parents are that these tests are too difficult, they cause anxiety, they make kids nervous and eventually sick.

In my opinion only stupid kids would get sick because they know they can not do these tests correctly. Parents claim the tests are too difficult. Maybe they are too difficult for the parents because they are not smart enough!

What's the point to give easy tests? Tests are not meant to be easy. They are not to breeze through. They are programmed for people to use their minds in order to complete them.

I can not understand how can parents get involved in something that is none of their business. How can they tell professional educators what to teach their children. If they want their kids to stay stupid it is their business, then keep them home from school let them squeeze through the school years and maybe they can become professional night watchmen and work for peanuts. But then don't blame society for the lack of education.

If I would have said to my parents that I wanted to stay home from school because an upcoming test or tests were too difficult I probably wouldn't have lived to see the next day and that would have been the only way I could have stay out.

Something like this can only happen in America where protesting is a national pastime. It seem to be more popular than baseball.

The minute some kids can successfully finish a test that test is not out of range for the rest. They just need the wherewithal to do it.