On Friday's Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the headline screamed of schools missing their educational goals. How do the schools determine how well they're educating students? They determine educational progress by how accurately students color in bubbles on a test form known as the STAR test. I'm not joking.
Talk to any student one-on-one candidly away from the classroom and they will tell you of how they blindly fill in the bubbles and sometimes make designs like connect-the-dots. It's hard for students to endure days upon days of ridiculous testing that have no direct effect on them and expect them to be gung-ho about expending all sorts of energy in the process.
But..those in the upper echelons of determining educational policy have themselves convinced that these canned "bubble tests" are the be-all and end-all of measuring progress. It's a typical example of garbage in, gospel out. The students are much smarter than the educational policy makers. The students are catching on to what a bunch of useless crap it all is. I can't say the same for the policy makers and the people who blindly believe in the test results.
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