Are We Testing Our Children Into Incompetence?

Public schools require students to take over 100 standardized tests between preschool and 12th grade. When you consider the time students spend preparing for these tests (teachers and administrators need these scores to be high) and the actual days that it takes to administer them, how many days do the students get to actually engage in the material they are supposed to be learning? HMMMM.

Most American schools only have 180 days of instruction per year. That doesn’t leave many days left for teaching! With the Common Core curriculum, even more testing is required. No wonder students don’t have comprehensive knowledge in each subject area before they move on to the next class. They’re spending too much time taking (and learning how to take) standardized tests!

As a result of this, kids across the U.S. are starting to opt out of standardized tests.