but these are challenges that all students need to overcome to be productive members of society.
As a productive member of society, I fucking hated school and failed a lot because I had undiagnosed learning disorders like Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and BPD.
So if I must pass the same tests as a completely neurotypical kid with none of those traits, you may as well ask the fish to climb the fucking tree.
Just throwing your hands up in the air and giving up because a student had it harder than another is feeding into the anti-intellectualism scourge.
I’m an very intelligent individual. And the one thing I can tell you is you’re full of shit if you think kids like me giving up in school was because it was “hard” is a complete load of horseshit, and really makes me think you were one of the “normal” kids. It wasn’t because it was hard, it was because it didn’t make sense because our brains don’t process information the same way you do. It’s like asking an English speaker to read Mandarin, and fail him because the Chinese kid did it fine.
My guy, I didn’t say that students would find the material to be hard. I just said that some students would have a harder time. Which, based on what you’ve said, appears to be true.
And based on what you said, it sounds like the problem that you have isn’t even with standardized testing, but with the failure of the educational system to cater to unique learning styles. Which, for what it’s worth, is a problem that I agree with you on, but is an entirely separate discussion altogether.
But ok, I’ll bite. Taking you at your word, if not for standardized testing, by what metric would you measure and ensure that students are learning properly? And if you advocate for not using any metric, how do you ensure that students who are falling behind get the help they need?
As a productive member of society, I fucking hated school and failed a lot because I had undiagnosed learning disorders like Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and BPD.
So if I must pass the same tests as a completely neurotypical kid with none of those traits, you may as well ask the fish to climb the fucking tree.
I’m an very intelligent individual. And the one thing I can tell you is you’re full of shit if you think kids like me giving up in school was because it was “hard” is a complete load of horseshit, and really makes me think you were one of the “normal” kids. It wasn’t because it was hard, it was because it didn’t make sense because our brains don’t process information the same way you do. It’s like asking an English speaker to read Mandarin, and fail him because the Chinese kid did it fine.
My guy, I didn’t say that students would find the material to be hard. I just said that some students would have a harder time. Which, based on what you’ve said, appears to be true.
And based on what you said, it sounds like the problem that you have isn’t even with standardized testing, but with the failure of the educational system to cater to unique learning styles. Which, for what it’s worth, is a problem that I agree with you on, but is an entirely separate discussion altogether.
But ok, I’ll bite. Taking you at your word, if not for standardized testing, by what metric would you measure and ensure that students are learning properly? And if you advocate for not using any metric, how do you ensure that students who are falling behind get the help they need?
Go ask Finland 😉
Should have developed a useful maladaptive trait like the undiagnosed kids in the academically gifted program smh