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Originally Posted by wolf
Are the teachers just teaching to the test?
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Yes, even the good ones. It's a function of necessity - you only have so much time in the day, and the stakes for getting good scores are so high, that even the best teachers have to take months out of the year to teach specifically to the test.
That's a big part of the reason why my wife refuses to work in the public school system. She's an incredible teacher, creative, innovative, connects with kids, parents fight to get into her class, the next year's teachers fight to get her kids.
Her private school switched over to a standardized test for about two years, and she nearly quit out of frustration. She went from teaching students and developing kids to churning out test scores. It's awful.
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