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For years, the children of America have been taking required tests by schools, like the standardized test. Because of these required tests, teachers will teach their students ONLY what is required on the test, and because of this, the breadth of a child in public school's education is not as wide as demanded around America. Public schools have so many problems that family's have started homeschooling because of religion problems and because they want their child to learn more. In the 1st Amendment, it states that federal and state governments cannot make any law's abiding religion, that means schools cannot practice any religion. We could probably fix this problem by making certain schools based off of certain religions, and certain people with those certain beliefs can go to those certain schools. Maybe I'm wrong, but I have also strayed of topic, back to the debate. I feel if we rid ourselves of these tests, and focus on the whole education of these children, we may fix this problem. Fixing this problem will likely be devastatingly hard, but once we do, it would probably guarantee intelligent citizens as needed, and we would have better statesmen, lawyers, judges, and such, making America better and more prosperous.
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"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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For example, science. Science tests help confirm you know things such as chemistry, biology, and topics regarding the aforementioned subjects. Why should we not have testing?
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Student: "Why do I have to learn the lesson?"
Teacher: "This lesson will be important for you in the future because we have a test in six weeks."
Also some students are just not good at standardized testing and are better at other things, such as creativity. This is a famous cartoon:
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If teachers differentiate their teaching, then they should not standardize their tests.
Standardized tests should exist because they provide useful information, such as if a school is doing its job correctly, but we should also have other ways to test a student. Of course, every test has some element of standardization to it, which we can't get rid of. One solution to this is having multiple types of tests which the student can choose to do. He can choose what he is best at. For example, choosing between the ACT and SAT.
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Yes I was expanding on your idea so that other people arguing against you can see
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