Taking a Stand
On Tuesday, Wisconsin teacher David Wasserman refused to administer the state standardized test to his eighth graders, because he morally objects to the No Child Left Behind law.
Threatened with termination, today he’ll be administering the test, the AP reported. But his point is made.
“Wasserman said he believes the test uses questions that are disconnected from what students learn in the classroom,” the AP reported. “And its results, he said, are not used in any meaningful way to improve teaching but instead become the primary way the district and media evaluate the quality of a school.”
The AP reported that, according to FairTest, this is the first known case of a teacher protesting NCLB by refusing to test students.
Will he be the last? Should reauthorization language specify terms for conscientious objectors?
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