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FCAT not a good measure of yearly
performance
By Maria Williams, Panama City Beach
The News Herald
March 28, 2008
I am a mother of two boys who have had to endure the FCAT for too many years;
they are Exceptional Student Education students in math and reading. I firmly
believe that a child’s promotion should not be based on one test a year. I do
not understand why we cannot come up with a better solution for rating schools,
teacher promotions and salary raises than putting students and their parents
through the stress and aggravation of passing one test a year.
Everything a student does through the year, including reports and science
projects, don’t count. A student with straight A’s has to take this test however
many times necessary to pass to be able to graduate. That’s crazy. That teachers
have to stop normal studies to “get ready” for this test is also a letdown for
the students. And what about the students with test anxiety?
I wish our people in government could come up with a better way to bring our
students up to par without stressing all the parents, students and especially
the teachers. Teachers should get a raise without all this testing — they are
teaching our future.
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