So, you have the pre-assessment assessment. Then you have the assessment. How long before some “genius” in the administration decides it would be “great” to have a post-assessment assessment?
Sigh.
School districts are easy targets for grifters.
Corporations everywhere are trying to sell them unnecessary junk and pocket wads of taxpayer cash.
The Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test is a particularly egregious example of this, but let me begin with a more everyday example.
I’m a public school teacher in western Pennsylvania, and when I returned to school this week before classes started, I noticed my stapler was irreparably jammed from last year.
Normally, I’d just go out and buy another one. But I was running out of time to get things done, so I went to the office and asked if they had any staplers.
As luck would have it, they did.
The secretary lead me to a closet full of brand new Swingline staplers.
I thanked her, took one back to my room and started stapling.
Three staples in, it was irreparably jammed.
When…
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