The sooner we get an education system which does not teach religion or political or patriotic based material the better.
Here's a clue for you. Teachers spend so much time preparing students to take tests (Ever hear of a political candidate saying they've got a better idea on making schools accountable through testing?) there's scant time to teach outside of a packaged program, let along politics or patriotism (and religion, that's a livewire in the local schools, don't touch it.)
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There's a reason for these tests: students wouldn't learn shit without them. What else would give teachers motivation to teach something other than feel good politically correct non-factual crap? There are many talented teachers who care about education, but there are many idiots teaching as well. Testing is the closest thing we have to protect kids from idiot teachers. If schools were teaching rigorous material in the first place, they wouldn't have to prepare students for the test. It's not like these tes
It seems like it would work, but I'm sure there would be teachers who would get very good at test taking but continue to spew drivel to their students who would learn nothing. Ever had a college professor who was brilliant and well known for research but couldn't explain his way out of a paper bag?
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Here's a clue for you. Teachers spend so much time preparing students to take tests (Ever hear of a political candidate saying they've got a better idea on making schools accountable through testing?) there's scant time to teach outside of a packaged program, let along politics or patriotism (and religion, that's a livewire in the local schools, don't touch it.)
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