I reported yesterday that ELA tests are suspended. In this time of rumors, fake news, and disinformation,let me clarify.
The distribution of the ELA tests has been suspended. The tests have not been suspended.
The schools will be closed. The students and teachers will be home. But the tests will be given.
By whom, it’s not clear.
To whom, no one knows.
The sovereign state of New York is waiting for permission from Betsy DeVos to cancel the Sacred Tests.
Please, New York, gets spine.
You can’t give tests when the schools are closed!
Nuts. It’s about MONEY.
Idiots
Would love to know what are friends from Long Island are thinking…
My guess is the state is buying time. There will be no classes or tests for a long time.
My money is on Betsy the Brainless using the same methods the NAEP uses, but not the same testing material.
Students will be selected at random (not all of them) and those few from each district/school will be notified to show up at a location to take the test. The focus will be to only select children that live in poverty.
Those children will be crammed into a stuffy room with stern-faced proctors wearing hazmat suits, and as the children all share the same air helping to spread COVID-19, they will take the test they didn’t even get test prep for. Charter and Voucher students will not be included in this dystopian, disease spreading testing environment.
When those kids all come down with COVID-19, public schools will be blamed for it, or Hillary Clinton, or Obama, or someone else Trump and/or Besty wants to scapegoat.
ought to be a great year for the opt-out movement– what utter nonsense from the sovereigns
deVos, some move here for what???
B-A-N-A-N-A-S… this state is bananas. (Gwen Stefani reference).
You know what? I am very likely finished teaching in public schools. I am a masochist, but even I have my limits….
So the epidemic is bad enough to push for online schooling, but not bad enough to cancel high stakes testing. There’s one test I care about, and that just doesn’t pass it — the smell test.
Yes, there can be zero statistical validity now: the only reason any testing continues now is that it has been paid for
This farce rises beyond the level of absurdity (read bull shit). What happens now to test security, the gag rule? Who will proctor these exams? When every kid gets 3s and 4s, will NYS and NYC claim that despite losing weeks/months? of schooling, our scores are better than ever. Makes the case for doing away with teachers and schools, no?
Fred, beyond “absurd” is right. The word that’s kept coming to mind for me the past few months is “preposterous”. And, now “tragic” and even “cataclysmic”.
Take care.
Insane!
Suspended logic
The tests are not suspended
But only lucid thought
The stupid is defended
By pols who have been bought