Thursday, September 15, 2011
Why the MCAS should not be used by any School
The MCAS, the mortal enemy of every student from third grade up until Sophomore year. These standardized tests are extremely useless in my opinion. They do nothing but cause unneeded stress and anxiety in kids that don't need that kind of pressure put on them at such a young age. These tests take away from class time and cause teachers to teach methods that are never used again in real life. These test don't even test anything about the student, but about how well they have been taught. I'm going to say that these test caused me to stay up all night worrying if I was going to pass. I always did but that didn't matter because this test was always made to seem like it was the be all, end all of the testing world. I despised doing them because you failed you had to go through remedial courses on what you didn't do good in. Now there are those that will say that these test are necessary to see how good a student is and how smart they are. I think those people have never even taken this test and should be forced to take it after being repeatedly told that the way their life is going to turn out depends on how goo they do on this test, but they are entitled to their own opinion no matter how wrong I think it is. Another thing about the MCAS is it's needed to graduate from high school which I think is that worse thing of all because what if your not good at testing and the only reason you can't pass high school is because of some test that the state made you take because they thought it was a good idea. The fact that these tests are mandatory until your second year of high school is way to ridiculous for me, but that's just my opinion take it or leave it.
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