testing

Here is my two cents on standarized testing. like posts i've been seeing, i will agree that standardized testing sucks; but heres the thing...I can see the need for them. Every now and then, its important to assess your school to get an idea of how well the students are learning. An easy way to do that, is by giving them a standardized test to see how well they do. There's nothing inherantly wrong with that idea, tests can serve a purpose. My whole thing, though, is how much weight standardized testing holds these days. As people have mentioned, there are a whole lot of flaws with testing; some kids do poor on tests, a kid might not being feeling well that day, they don't assess the arts at all...all kinds of things wrong with the damn things. For a system that is so obviously flawed, i don't understand why people invest so much in them.