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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: "I'm just no good at kindergarten, just no good at all.”

Missouri Education Watchdog: "I'm just no good at kindergarten, just no good at all.”:


"I'm just no good at kindergarten, just no good at all.”

Students, get ready to test, test, test!  Teachers must prepare 5 year old children for the workforce!



Yesterday we wrote about a teacher who quit because of common core standards, top down testing and administrators who cared more about testing results than authentic learning.

Today we feature a story from Chicago and a mother's observation on her kindergartner's classroom.  It's truly heartbreaking.  This is a story that is undoubtedly occurring in kindergarten rooms in those states that adopted common core standards and other high stakes tests so 5 year old children can be tracked for career readiness.  

Is this what you want for your school?  To treat kindergartners like human capital for their data sets?   

From raiseyourhand.org:

Testing? Testing?

Submitted by Claire Wapole on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 11:28am

I've heard from teachers, education experts and even from my older kids, just how stressful all the standard