3 Weeks Of Testing For Elementary School Students

@sassy28 (834)
United States
March 2, 2010 8:43am CST
My boys are in 3rd and 5th grade, every year they do standardized testing. This goes on for three weeks, every day from 8 to 12. I think 3 weeks is way to long for testing, maybe 1 week at the most. They are basically wasting this time for learning. Because when the testing is done, they have lunch and a break. Then they get out of school at 2:30. When I get the results at the end of the year, I have no clue to what it is saying. I am basically only concerned about their report cards and whether they are passing or not. Do your children go through this much testing?
2 responses
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
3 Mar 10
Wow, three weeks, that is a very long time. While I have no children myself, I remember these standardized testing very well from my time in school. They have really stepped up with them since my time later. They were just one week when I went to school. Pretty much the same amount of time that during the test. And also one of the most tedious things in the world to do. By the end of the week, I never wanted to see those tests ever again. And they were taken each and every year, until my Senior Year of high school pretty much. I can just imagine what three weeks of that torture like. Also, I do agree that those results were tricky to understand. The fact was that they really mattered little in the long run to us the students. I think there's something that determines how much funding the school gets or something like that. All that mattered to me was the final grades on the report card. In the grand scheme of things, those standardized tests was a week of my life that I would never get back. About the only good thing about that week was there was no homework. Then again, school work would be the absolute last thing I would even want to see after those standardized tests.
• United States
2 Mar 10
My child is grown and a new mother. Very new! But I think that is the craziest thing I've ever heard that they do testing for so long. I just don't understand it.