Scorch The Tests, Rather Than Score Them?

 

"Score Meter" by Herr D on Paint 3d. Explanations below with Shelob.

You insisted on waiting to talk about this op-ed until you had the pic done.

I'm sorry. Heromachine was far superior and quick. And my learning curve is a bit flat. Age or sleep loss or illness?

[startle reaction and pause] Well, all that and stress. Please explain importance then.

When the woman said, [quote corrected] "Standardized tests don't help students learn" and "don't help teachers teach" [resume]  again, she wasn't making an excuse for scores being low or keeping kids out of school. She was pointing out what EVERYONE OUGHT TO KNOW ALREADY. People have been frustrated for DECADES that so many people are stupid enough to think that standardized tests are even ACCURATE.

They aren't. They're a stupid guess at whether a kid remembers the exact way a certain set of concepts are framed by a few committees of people that don't understand reality enough to be making more money doing something else. The average teacher HAS to waste a lot of time and other resources on getting kids more able to pass those useless things or risk losing their career. And the average teacher knows that it's a waste. It wastes students?

It wastes a lot of their potential to learn. It wastes time, childhood, money, It also teaches some lessons we don't want anyone to believe because they're not true. Your visual metaphor implies arbitrariness.

Then it was successful. Grinding childhood up for civilzation's less worthwhile products is a metaphor we can thank Pink Floyd for. The style of windmill I picked because it implies "knowing the way the wind is blowing" as a point of forcing kids to be more like their parents than maybe they should be. And the meter works the metaphorical way that it measures students' learning. BLOWING SMOKE. Why do they do it at all, then?

Ease. A moron in charge can look at a single chart and say how well things are going. Usually a moron who shouldn't make any decisions. It is a shame the morons in charge didn't have better teachers.

[snorts] They still don't. Morons in charge can't be made to learn much of anything. [exits]

There must not be a solution, as Herr D has not offered one. Perhaps the morons in charge should have to take the standardized tests before election? Please provide solution in comments.