I would appreciate the district’s assurance that “state tests cannot measure important aspects of a children’s learning” a lot more if the examples they listed weren’t also things they were trying to quantify in other ways.
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(Me, I’m less upset that she’s getting x-rays than that her school will have her make up the state testing she’s currently missing.)
Can’t even start a lazy Saturday archive binge of a decades-old webcomic without coming back to Jacques Ellul, concerns about quantification and metrics, etc.
Is there a technical term for the tension a parent feels between disapproving of what U.S. schools emphasize and how they operate but still being proud of their kid for doing well within that system?
Kiddo’s school district has gotten rid of ClassDojo (hooray!) and replaced it with what looks like a homebrew platform (tentative hooray?) that still datafies student behavior (boo!) and frames the whole thing in terms of employability and workforce development (super boo!).
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