...the teachers and administration
are truly devastated by what a terrible test it was and how little it
will tell us about our students.
This is just the beginning. Let the deformers attack the staff and parents at one of the highest performing schools in the city and the actions of one of the top principals (who also happens to be the spouse of Mark Naison).
Will Carmen Farina repeat her recent comment about some parents not being up to the challenge?
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PS 321 PARENTS--Our
3rd, 4th, and 5th graders have just completed three days of the New
York State English Language Arts Exam. Your children were wonderful
and worked incredibly hard. On the whole, we think that we were able to
protect them from the worst stresses of the test, and most seemed fine
during most of the exam. However, the teachers and administration
are truly devastated by what a terrible test it was and how little it
will tell us about our students. Because we are bound by test
security, we cannot reveal details but we can tell you that we have
never seen an ELA exam that does a worse job of testing reading
comprehension. There was inappropriate content, many highly ambiguous
questions, and a focus on structure rather than meaning of passages.
Our teachers
and administrators feel that this test is an insult to the profession of
teaching and that students’ scores on it will not correlate with their
reading ability. Because of this, the staff has decided to hold a protest outside of school TOMORROW, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, FROM 8:15-8:35
to express their extreme dissatisfaction with the ELA exam. Parents
are invited to join the staff before going into classrooms for Family Friday.
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PS 321
180 Seventh Ave. , Brooklyn, New York 11215
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