tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post6623800388646552369..comments2023-10-18T05:06:49.026-05:00Comments on Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Assessment Sample Questions in the Kindergarten Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K:2011) by the Department of Educationdsmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01501964533388756254noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post-27074268014192227842013-09-27T19:25:32.970-05:002013-09-27T19:25:32.970-05:00Was just reading this article from 1981 by Deborah...Was just reading this article from 1981 by Deborah Meier: Why Reading Tests Don't Test Reading. Have we as a society learned nothing in the last 30 years? The sample test questions in this study look terrible, and they are probably just as terrible (possibly in the same ways) as the ones Deborah Meier was supposed to be testing her students with decades and decades ago. Ugh. Truly depressing.<br /><br />http://deborahmeier.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/1981_whyreading.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post-22065219596417754222013-09-27T17:39:42.891-05:002013-09-27T17:39:42.891-05:00Yeah... the government is not going to let this on...Yeah... the government is not going to let this one go. They might change the name of the program, but unless we work together to take the power out of the hands of the federal government and back in the local where it belongs, not a single politician is going to undo this. Get used to it.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post-41213648443050688062013-09-26T22:51:46.259-05:002013-09-26T22:51:46.259-05:00Looking at some of those questions, like "Wha...Looking at some of those questions, like "What do children know and what skills do they possess when they start school", one has to ask "Where have you people been for the last hundred years? You don't already know these things? You're supposed to be professionals. Didn't any of you graduate from schools of education, teachers colleges or something?"<br />And then "How well do children do in their first encounter with formal schooling?" are you kidding? What kind of asinine, stupid drug - or - something-induced question is that? Some do better than others, you dolts. And us lay people out here will tell you something else - two-and-three-year-olds probably don't do well at all because they're about other things, as they should be, so quit the baloney about schooling from birth to thirty.<br />et cetera. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09366195101456075192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post-6390497889113971762013-09-26T09:49:35.081-05:002013-09-26T09:49:35.081-05:00Leave our babies alone!!! They are perfect just t...Leave our babies alone!!! They are perfect just the way they are. Raising the standards only stresses them out. Let them learn at their own pace and level. I don't want my 8 yr old learning about sex, pimps and gangsters. She is eight and has already seen pornography on the school computer system. She has also been sexually assaulted by another student, and you people think its ok to teach babies about sex and birth. Also I will not subject my child to tears and anguish because you all want to be better than all the other countries. Place your competition on someone your own size. I believe in the second amendment. I will not teach my child anything but the truth. I will homeschool her for as long as it takes for the government to pull their head out and back into the sunshine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com