[Rhodes22-list] Texas tests.

[Jim White]

My point exactly Rummy...and a huge reason why my wife no longer teaches! 
She wanted to be a teacher, not a test administrator. I do not know a whole 
lot of parents here who think highly of "the test", but in general, it 
seems folks are too apathetic, or self absorbed to get involved in changing 
things.
jw

At 06:45 PM 10/05/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>JW,
>A while back on one of the talking head shows, they were discussing the
>Texas schools and "the tests." What came out of the discussion is that the 
>only
>thing the teachers are teaching is what is on the tests.....so the kids look
>smart and the teachers keep their jobs. Not what I would call a good well
>rounded education.
>
>Rummy
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