{"id":13060,"date":"2019-03-30T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/?p=13060"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T21:32:09","slug":"one-students-thoughts-feelings-about-high-stakes-standardized-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/one-students-thoughts-feelings-about-high-stakes-standardized-test\/","title":{"rendered":"One Student’s Thoughts & Feelings About High-Stakes Standardized Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Dan Drmacich via the Diane Ravitch Blog<\/a>

Kevin Bosworth, a teacher at Olathe East High School in Olathe, Kansas, wrote to tell me about a class discussion of grades and tests. A student shared her poem with the class, and Kevin shared it with me. The reformers and disrupters now say they are intrigued with social and emotional learning. Let them read this and see what they have learned.<\/em><\/p>

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Hello my name is worthless
Name number and date
State your class and hour
Let the rubric pick your fate\u00a0

Your value as a human
Can be measured by percent
All that matters is the value
That the numbers represent\u00a0

We promise that you matter
You\u2019re more than just a grade
But you better score one hundred
Or else you won\u2019t get paid\u00a0

They require our attendance
We\u2019re brain dead taking notes
So we can barf back up the knowledge
That they shove down our throats\u00a0

Each human life is precious
And every childhood has worth
But if you fill in the wrong bubbles
Then you don\u2019t belong on earth\u00a0

They question our depression
They wonder why we\u2019re stressed
When our futures are decided
Doing better on a test\u00a0

They tell me that I\u2019m gifted
That there\u2019s no need to despair
But if you only read the numbers
I\u2019m a living waste of air\u00a0

I might think I have talents
But there\u2019s no worth in art
Because it can\u2019t be measured
By a number on a chart\u00a0

The people say I\u2019m flying
The numbers say I\u2019ll crash
My letter grades \u2018ll prove it
I\u2019m worthless human trash

They use standardized procedures
To find the worth of kids
But I don\u2019t fit in boxes
Without spilling out the lids\u00a0

Some kids don\u2019t fit the system
But differences can\u2019t stay
They put us in the garbage
And throw it all away <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Dan Drmacich via the Diane Ravitch Blog Kevin Bosworth, a teacher at Olathe East High School in Olathe, Kansas, wrote to tell me about a class discussion of grades and tests. A student shared her poem with the class, and Kevin shared it with me. The reformers and disrupters now say they are intrigued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13062,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13060\/revisions\/13062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.educationrevolution.org\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}