Ilena Ewen and Pamela Grundy are parents in North Carolina.
They say that the standardized tests are like zombies.
“How are standardized tests like zombies? They’re mindless, and they just keep coming. For more than a decade, North Carolina schools and students have suffered from an onslaught of high-stakes standardized tests. These zombie tests have invaded our schools, sucking time and money from teaching and learning. They’ve deadened creativity and original thought, squashed imagination, stripped both teachers and students of dignity.
“Like zombies, these tests just won’t die. Despite conclusive evidence that the explosion of testing under No Child Left Behind did more harm than good, the numbers and the cost of tests continue to multiply.”
Ewell and Grundy say it is madness. They call on their legislators to spare their children. Enough is enough.
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These tests also feed on brains of both the students and the teachers/proctors.
As one of my colleagues said during our test week: “There is nothing more mind-numbing and soul-destroying than administering these tests.”
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Unfortunately Zombies are creatures of science fiction and HST are a thing of real life
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We gotta get some vampires in here too. Perhaps the educrats who feed on tests results. The data doesn’t have to tell anyone anything useful; the stream of numbers just needs to be continuous to feed their voracious appetite.
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AB Paterson/Marie Cown:
“Up jumped the swagman, sprang into the billabong, ‘You’ll never catch me alive’ said he. And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong. . .you’ll come a waltzin’ Matilda with me.”
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