K12> Resisting Testing
- From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:27:11 -0600
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From: Steve <uriel1998@xxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: misc.education.home-school.misc
Subject: News: Resisting Testing
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 21:17:39 -0500
MC NELLY TORRES, SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS - Kimberly Marciniak is not
expecting to spark a revolution in testing or even a drastic change in
state policy, but she is determined to boycott the standardized test
this spring that every child must pass to graduate from a Texas public
high school. Fifteen-year-old Kimberly Marciniak is boycotting the
standardized testing this spring with the support of her parents. The
15-year-old freshman at the North East School of Arts at Lee High School
hopes her actions will send a message to her school district:
High-stakes testing has stolen her thirst for knowledge and tarnished
what she treasures about school - learning.
"I don't want to be a statistic and I don't want to be a human guinea
pig for the district," Marciniak wrote in an e-mail to a San Antonio
Express-News reporter. Marciniak said her motives are based on principle
and her strong belief that attaching high stakes to standardized testing
is wrong. "Higher standards come with a price," she said, recalling her
first contact with the state's standardized tests as an eighth-grader at
Eisenhower Middle School. Marciniak said she's not a troublemaker and
has no plans to disrupt others. In fact, the teen is among the best
students of her class. Her parents support her boycott of the test,
which won't affect her academically this year. However, she could fail
to graduate if she refuses to take the exit test in high school.
Marciniak's decision to put her pencil down reflects a growing national
anti-testing trend. In Massachusetts, New York, Washington and
California, students and parents have boycotted state tests in recent years.
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=937286
Steve
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