Maryland High School Assessments Opposition
I oppose the use of the Maryland High School Assessments (HSAs) as high stakes graduation requirements.I believe that the HSA testing program represents an inappropriate violation of local control and... continue reading »
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"В Maryland town or city in which you reside Baltimore City"
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"This is ridiculous. It is hard enough for kids to do the required classwork and homework each year and to add this additional requirement would make it impossible for kids who at best can do the bare minimum. The kids who struggle just to pass a class wou"
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"I am also boycotting the standardized tests at the elementary and middle school level. The hours devoted at my child's school to the test itself and preparation for it are being taken from his real education, and I refuse to subject him to a false educati"
"we should discontinue the hsa test it is keeping even straight A students from graduating and a test shouldnot say whether you are intelligent or whether you should recieve a diploma and i feel it is unfair for students to pass it from 2009 and further. M"
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"until the tests can be returned in a timely matter and can actually inform teachers of childrens areas of weakness they are not a useful tool for our kids. they need to help kids do better in school not be a way to close a childs future off to him. Maryla"
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"HSAs do not take into account the unique giftedness of children. The effect of the HSAs and No Child Left Behind is to eliminate choice for students not interested in college. Kids feel guilty for wanted to choose a trade. We need to revisit the concept w"
"The HSA does not show what a child has done during all his/her school years. Some students who have failed the HSA's have A's in their classes and have made the Honor Roll. Maryland town or city in which you reside Rockville"
"This test is failing people who are really trying to past the test and graduate. Maryland town or city in which you reside Landover"
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"Standardized tests does not determine whether i or other students should be able to graduate these tests will only decrease the attendance for students in maryland because they have too much pressure already on school work now the HSA's Maryland town or "
