{"id":611,"date":"2006-01-18T09:47:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/my_name_is_luka_and_those_who_are_ostensibly_here_to_protect_me_honestly_believe_standardized_tests_amount_to_a_form_of_child_abuse.html"},"modified":"2006-01-18T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T17:47:19","slug":"my_name_is_luka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/my_name_is_luka.html","title":{"rendered":"My Name Is Luka And Those Who Are Ostensibly Here To Protect Me Honestly Believe Standardized Tests Amount To A Form Of Child Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When standardized tests are really cooking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/383627p-325672c.html\">they are exactly like child abuse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>City seventh-graders who took high-stakes state exams yesterday were stumped when several questions in their test booklets failed to match the answer key.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the multiple-choice questions on the reading test asked students to select the answer from options A, B, C or D. But when the 65,000 kids went to darken the bubbles on their answer sheets, the only options were F, G, H or J.<\/p>\n<p>The error confused many already stressed-out kids and infuriated teachers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How did this get through?&#8221; said a Brooklyn teacher, who asked not to be named. &#8220;It&#8217;s really unfair to the children who have to take this test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anti-testing advocates said the screwup was yet another example of why the exams should not be used to evaluate children&#8217;s performance in school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is child abuse,&#8221; said Jane Hirschmann of Time Out from Testing, who demanded the test results be scrapped. &#8220;These tests are deeply flawed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeoutfromtesting.org\/\">Time Out From Testing.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When standardized tests are really cooking, they are exactly like child abuse: City seventh-graders who took high-stakes state exams yesterday were stumped when several questions in their test booklets failed to match the answer key. Five of the multiple-choice questions on the reading test asked students to select the answer from options A, B, C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}