Standardized Testing. It's a joke!!

Standardized testing is another way that our legislators have continued to take control of the classroom. Imagine that we have elected officials that believe that teachers are not capable of evaluating their own students so they have spent MILLIONS of dollars creating tests for you! Isn’t that commendable of them?!
 Could you imagine if they spent half that money giving you more resources for your classroom, or better yet giving overdue pay raises. How can this be the only ideal way to evaluate a student when it is clear that they all learn differently? How does standardized testing fit into the concept of differentiated learning?

What makes this situation even more compelling is that teachers are evaluated on how well a student does on this assessment. Anyone out there ever try to force a student to learn? It can’t be done. A student will only what and when they see the value is what they are hearing.