The Environment Envir. While every group involved in the school system has contributed to the problems, as the teaching profession responds to the influx of new members from other fields, it will be interesting to see what happens to the school systems of America. No matter what anyone says, the system is failing, and the status quo can no longer be defended.
Students pay the price for that failure.
If they want it to change, they are going to have to be part of that change. We must talk to our children. We have to let our children know we care about them. We might not be able to change the world today, but by helping our children succeed, we can make the world better tomorrow. We have not evaluated the reasons we test, the cost of testing other than financial, and the value of the results of the testing in a very long time.