Today's class was quite interesting. I enjoyed our discussion on the various articles.. especially the history as part of a standardized testing practice. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I am not even into the idea that students should be judged based on a test... especially something like the SAT's. Anyway, if children are going to be tested, the best way to go about it is testing based on EVERYTHING things - like math, reading, and writing. Science and history in my opinion, aren't neccessarily as important to be tested about on standardized tests. Not that I think they are not important, but if society is going to test these students, at least test on something that is used everyday.. not cells and plants.
As for bilingual classes, it's a 50/50 kind of attitude. Some parts of me say.. teaching a language is a great idea while some other parts of me say that today's teachers have not teaching language classes as they should. I think that a more varied list of languages should be offered in public schools including, polish, italian, german, and chinese. It is important - if we want to keep a salad bowl kind of society, that we welcome all languages and cultures instead of just spanish. [I use the language of spanish because that is offered in many schools today.]
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