Texas Considers Backtracking on Testing.

[mbperrin]

1. Actually increases the number of tests from 4 to 5.

The 15 test regimen had not been implemented yet, and people began to see how crazy it would be to make high schoolers pass 26 courses in 4 years AND pass each and every one of 15 tests.

So if you made the grades and got the credits, but you missed the 9th grade English test by 1 point, even though you would have passed the sophomore and junior tests, you could not graduate.

We're already testing 45 days out of 180 instructional days. That's a full 25% of the entire year testing only. When you quadruple the tests from 4 to 16, you go from 25% testing time to 100%. There literally would be no time for instruction.

Whole thing's stupid. We took none of these in the 50s and 60s, and all we did was walk on the moon and create the largest economy in the world. No wonder we had to revamp education.

Wait, what?