On Thursday, at the Delaware State Board of Education meeting, there will be talk about the Smarter Balanced Assessment (among MANY other things). How will the DOE score this wonderful awesome test? They really have no idea. In fact, they have to hire an outside contractor to do all that! But for now, let’s see how they do with what the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium sent them!
Yes, you read that right, Big Brain Brian Touchette actually said that:
Because the new standards set higher expectations for students–and the new tests are designed to assess student performance against these higher expectations–our definition of grade level performance is higher than it used to be.
As a result, it means that fewer students will meet grade level standards, especially for the first few years.
It starts with Mark Murphy saying he doesn’t expect more than 30% of the students to meet proficiency in the first year. Then I start to hear two years. Now it’s a few. But the kids aren’t failing! No, the schools will be and you will judge them and close them. Even though you have said what you just said. And maybe the test will never work, but we will use the data from it to close all of you nasty, filthy public school districts! Sorry, I turned into Murphy there.
And then there are the special needs kids. How about we change some laws to make it tougher for them AND their IEP Teams! Let’s put some really vague wording in some areas, then ignore what is sent to us about it by the agencies that probably know more about these things than we do. Even if they are filled with a bunch of filthy, nasty parents and union reps. Sorry, morphed into the Murph man again!
Yada yada yada, opt out now, blah blah blah! Just do it already parents! NOW! Cause guess what, they didn’t even bring up the topic of parent opt out in this regulation, and we already know they either don’t how to read their own state’s code, or they purposely misinterpret it to scare parents.
The Season Of Myths 