Essay Galaxy - Standardized Testing As A War
Standardized Testing As A War
A number two pencil and a calculator are all you need for your fight against the world. Each student is a soldier among hundred of thousands, marching in a powerful wall towards the enemy. All the soldiers are dressed in uniform, carrying the same gun, and waiting to receive destiny. Who will fight? Who will die? A soldier�s mind wanders through unforbidden questions of, �Why am I fighting? Who is my enemy?� The student is not fighting his own intelligence but that of educational bureaucracy. Standardized testing is a futile battle.
Each soldier is dressed the same, with the same boots, canteen, helmet, and even gun. All are expected to act the same; society knows nothing less. Society expects and adulates categories. Each new product, new discovery, new revelation has a classificatio....
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