About seven hours a day, nine months a year are spent by students working inside the classroom, showing their growth and development over the course of a year. That is unreasonable, and it teaches that the work done during the year is worthless. Therefore, students will not put as much in to, or get as much out of, the work. While attending the first Youth Legislative Conference for this region, I learned that it is not only parents, but also students, who would like to see some improvements in the methods of administering standardized tests.
All students learn and perform well under different circumstances.
However, our wonderful standardized tests measure everyone's performance on the same scale. More than 3 million children were reported to child protective service agencies as alleged victims of child abuse or neglect in 1998, and approximately 1 million of these cases were confirmed. The physical and emotional abuse of children yields harmful consequences for society. A growing body of evidence links child abuse and neglect with drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, youth violence and chronic health problems. These are only a few reasons why April is recognized as Child Abuse Prevention Month.