I believe that kids are tested too much in school. it wastes time.

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Am I normal for believing that kids should not be tested so much? I performed all of these tests all through school yet, I can't say it made any remarkable difference to me in the real world. Tests, tests, tests! Fill in bubble! Yet, that kind of test isn't reflective of the real world. Its all kind of pointless unless you plan on becoming an expert about school.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    8 years ago

    Test...

    Icles

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    • ______________
      8 years ago

      Is that Morrowind in your profile picture?

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      • Terence_the_viking
        8 years ago

        nope

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      8 years ago

      You humored me. :-) Very cute.

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  • icant_
    8 years ago

    Finally someone who understands!

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  • zsdworknman
    8 years ago

    Yeah I mean why would you want to figure out how much information the children are retaining or which methods of teaching produce better results? Glad I don't need that damn geometry to figure angles for tile to be cut or stair stringers or anything.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      8 years ago

      LOL, some tests are okay. Excessive tests are overkill. Pointless overkill. Wrong, actually. Leonardo Da Vinci didn't do bubble tests back in the day. He was this artist engineer. No unrealistic tests. I mean, if you're going to take a freaking test, let the exam be something relevant, right? Like, with geometry? Build something as a project. That's better than a purely abstract mind exercise to pick the right answer, no? I mean, if you're going to learn something, it should relate to the real world.

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      • howaminotmyself
        8 years ago

        DaVinci wasn't exactly your average brain.

        If you feel strongly about it, become a school administrator. Tests are needed for funding purposes and as a way to evaluate a school's success. There are many problems with the method , i will agree, but you didn't give any examples as to what you think is too many. Is it

        A. Between 0 and 5
        B. Between 6 and 10
        C. Between 11 and 15
        D. More than 16

        Alternative response prepare a summary, less than 500 characters, as to what constitutes too many tests for your age and educational level.

        Bonus: Please be subject specific and discuss why the difference, if any.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          8 years ago

          Leonardo wasn't ever formally educated in the first place. I think his genius is more common than we realize. Kids get stifled by these prole schools that aim to create conventional droids. Your answer is foretelling irony. It is chock full of what is a trained response. Like, you used standard multiple choice. Following that? Why less than 500 characters? I take you are mocking the entire system too. It is a system. I prefer the Waldorf and Montessori schools. That's where the tech crowd sends their kids. They aren't aiming their children to aspire to middle management one day (follows formula). They want their kids to launch whatever spells a collaborative doom for Google, or strikes a mutually beneficial partnership. Much of the testing in schools? It is pathetically irrelevant to life beyond school. As a final point, I did not claim that there should be no tests. Excessive tests are the issue. A lot of schools are seriously structuring everything they do around tests. So, you end up with a well trained test taker.

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  • Steve2.0
    8 years ago

    I agree, why can't we be like India and enslave our children and force them to work 20 hours per day in coal mines without pay? That sounds better than testing, doesn't it?

    Prole.

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  • unionclocks
    8 years ago

    I don't mind tests honestly bc i'm smart but i can see where you're coming from.
    Though, tests give qaulifications, and qualifications means higher education & jobs.
    Furthermore, personally, i fuckin love some subjects at school and like...i'd love to do the tests, mostly because they're the only way to higher education on the thing which i'd want so.

    The root of the issue revolves around why are tests required now?
    And i say now for a reason. The job market form people just coming outta school RELIES on their grades, practically, since they don't have the experience that people who're now adults could get a job on with bad grades. Grades are all people have got to go off striaght outta school.

    I'm going to compare here...uhhh someone who gets a job in like non-professional office work vs someone who does do professional work.
    Yer non-professional, the grades don't matter all too much, so long ad they're good enough to get the job. The professional on the other hand needs it for higher education, and need to be testsed to make sure they're right for the job too.
    SO my point is it depends on what path you go, tests are needed for one path but not really for the other.

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  • KeddersPrincess
    8 years ago

    I think they need to rid those child labor laws and put those brats to work. Someone has to crawl through those little tunnels the rest of us can't fit through.

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
      8 years ago

      yall could just make em wear a buncha ole mop heads and put a fucktona compressed air behind em and shoot em thru them pipes

      the oil pipeline peoples calls it sendin a pig

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  • ______________
    8 years ago

    There are flaws in nearly all education systems (especially American) but as an employer you have the right to know the prowess of whoever you're employing into your business.
    Those who work hard wouldn't be distinguished from the ones who give a shit, if it weren't for examinations.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      8 years ago

      You can test all you wish as an employer. Makes total sense to see what you're getting before you buy it. You want to make sure that your human resource adds value. Of course, there's more to life than this, but okay. I know of people that test to death and still end up netting average performance. Yet, others kind of just wing it. Both parties arrive at the end of their life much the same. Which one had the better experience? A thought to ponder.

      But, yes, I think I'd want to know a proven track record for someone wanting my money. Oh, like the engineer that is going to design a bridge. Maybe the dude monitoring the big nuclear power plant. I hope he knows what he's doing? Yeah, please test that guy. I'd like my physician to have passed boards and all that jazz. True.

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  • handsignals
    8 years ago

    In Oz we have NAPLAN testing, the smartest schools get all the funding, so if your dumb and go to a dumb school you have no fucking hope.

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  • zsdworknman
    8 years ago

    Everything the test relates to the world just because you don't use it doesn't mean it's not useful or pertinent. Leonardo Da Vinci was a genius a once in a generation kind of mind to compare him to the average student is a bit insulting to such an amazing intellect. Wouldn't you say that saying excessive testing is overkill is a bit redundant I mean excessive is overkill lol . Possibly somebody just didn't like the results of all that testing?

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