Testing vs. Life Preparedness
If you are a student in the United States, your intelligence is measured only through standardized testing. Upon finishing high school and college I realized that I had been trained for sixteen years to take tests - and that my skill in doing so had no real-world application. I became a teacher because I'm good at it, I enjoy teaching others and watching them grow. However, I believe that one reason the teaching turnover rate is so prolific is because once inside the system, teachers recognize all that is amiss with it but are powerless to change it. We are so powerless in fact that even if we have children of school age, we aren't allowed to protest the fact that the Texas Education Agency dissolved the modified version of the STAAR test, leaving kids with learning disabilities or handicaps in the dust. Related article: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/latest-columns/20140502-special-education-teachers-staar-questions-unanswered.ece This is just one issue among many.