| There is (in my opinion) a problem about that in the U.S.They have the SATS and I think there is another major crucial one. And of course they have benchmarks and SOLs (at least in Virginia, not sure about other states) and it really adds up. And for most students taking a test is stressful, and they have to study for all of those. So by the time it is summer, the kids who do well are the kids who don't have a life. They spend too much time taking tests and worrying about them, wrather than learning, which is what you're are supposed to do anyways. These tests can make life miserable for a high schoolers hopeful of getting into a good college. Not to mention, to pay for said college what will they be doing in the summer after all that? Working! I think that a standardised test on everything they learned in the year at the end of the year which pretty much decides ones future wrong. I wouldn't want them to have a standardised test, cause if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
And they wonder why so many kids are doing drugs... |