WHAT? Standardized Testing!

Standardized testing is the new theme in schools, especially state-wide
testing that tests all the students in the state on similar subjects learned.
At times testing can benefit students, especailly when they are venturing
off to high school. The GEPA test is definetly around to help students. In
my school districted you needed to achieve a certain grade or you would
be considered unsatisfactory. Which meant that in high school you would
have smaller size classroom, (resource room) intervels in order to help
in the areas where you struggled on the test. In some cases this helped
students achieve the help that they needed with smaller class sizes, which
meant more inidividualized attention and more time to take tests. And on
the other hand it had students like me, struggle to get out of those
classrooms because you just deemed yourself unneccesary to be there.
Fortunatley with good grades in those classrooms, I got out the beginning
of my sophmore year which meant I was mainstream throughout High
School.

But also standardized testing is a way that the government can
see that the schools that are recieving money for education are
putting it to good use. Or if schools are stuggling finanically, which
is making them cut teachers and making class sizes rise to thirty
this will also show in Standardized tests. It will show that the bad
impact that the district causes in spite of cut of money for education.
So in all ways Standardized testing does help give students the
attention they need, and in some districts standardize tests give schools
the money that they need to stay open and pay the teachers
in order to help the students and the jobforce of the future.