Race and the Standardized Testing Wars

[pnwmom]

3. I encourage you to read the article. Some of the people in it are making your point.

For example:

A group of black parents in Philadelphia who planned to have their children opt out of the Pennsylvania state tests were featured recently on an education podcast called “Have You Heard.” They objected to the amount of money being made by the test-making companies and suggested that schools focused on testing were not cultivating students to be leaders.

“What we end up doing,” one mother said, “is creating a bunch of soldiers that, in order to pass, in order to get out of whatever their situation is, they will follow directions. And we will have a community of people that merely follow directions.”

And I agree with your point of view, FWIW. These tests are mostly being used to maintain the status quo, and to justify it.