Comments on: Math Tests For Five-Year-Olds?

NYC Proposal To Assess Kindergartners' Skills Stirs Debate Over Standardized Tests

[myopinion381]

I''m a little stumped here. Is GOP_forever male or female? May be that the jury is still out on that one.

[myopinion381]

"more than thirty minutes of testing is too much since their little pea brains" - Posted by Credibility2

I will assume that you have no children because anyone that has a child would never say that at kindergarten age, they have little pea brains!

[hypnotoad72]

Better that than meth tests, I suppose.

Questionnews, yeah the bltch got me good.....hook, line and sinker.... LOL

[questionnews]

gop_forever

Still hooking the suckers I see!
They seem to be biting pretty good today.
To those that respond to her posts all I can say is.
FISH ON!!

gop_forever, you think you are the foremost authority on everything, which just makes you look stupid. She earned those "A''s".....out of 450 students; she graduated in the top 5. It was because of my standards she did so well. I bestowed in her the importance of her education, and what it will mean in the future. She is well a well rounded individual, and is looked up upon as an example of what students should be doing. If I weren''t a good person, your dumbfounded statements would get me angry, but like I said before, you sit on your fat duff, preaching to everyone how NOT to be.....

[urboydigger]

Posted by Credibility2 at 11:32 AM : Aug 28, 2008

"because of the pandering and placating which is part and parcel of being PC."

Precisely.

[credibility2]

Unfortunately, today''s kids don''t have the attention span of even a fruit fly and they''re shipped off to school with little to no core or basic starting educational skills, because the lax parent now expects the schools to also raise their little darlings and teach them basics like their abc''s, counting, name, address, etc. I do think kids in school, regardless of their class level, should be given all types of tests to determine the intellectual capabilities or deficits of the kid. Unfortunately, for a kindergarten kid, more than thirty minutes of testing is too much since their little pea brains can''t concentrate for longer periods of time. Schools need to stop pandering and placating and go back to serious regimented instruction, even at the expense of offending both the parent and the kid. There''s a reason why are educational system is failing and it is because of the pandering and placating which is part and parcel of being PC. Inclusion is a crutch that inhibits and holds back. Time to raise the standards and levels of expectation.

[govwatch-2009]

Our public school system graduates students that can not pass these tests, what good will pretested them do?

[eggy1620]

Gop_forever: you have just admitted that conservative republican men are horrible fathers.

[eggy1620]

Gop_forever: you right wingers need your wives to spend all their time keeping you away from your children.

gop_forever, yeah right....my daughter graduated with straight "A''s" and won a 65 thousand dollar scholarship and her mother and I work full time. You come up with the dumbest reasons. You must be the one who didn%u2019t finish school.

[feddupp]

What on Earth do people have against CHILDREN being CHILDREN for the FEW PRECIOUS years that they have??
Why rush them into adulthood?

Can this possibly have anything to do with why some children join GANGS so they can feel wanted and accepted?

What we need are teachers that can teach math and not use the "government standard" for teaching it. I would say at least 80 percent of the population will say, "I hated math" which doesn''t help our children at all. Teachers need to bulk up on their own skills in mathematics and science. Not have a bunch of bean counters sitting on their duffs trying to figure out an "EASY" way of teachin.

[rational_1]

What a bunch of idiots. They should be locked up in a room with a group of 5 year-olds for 90 minutes while they try to get them to sit through their tests. LOL. Obviously the genius who thought up this little beauty of an idea has never spent more than 10 minutes in the company of a 5 year-old (especially a boy). I would like to see them try it though, if only for my amusement - the phrase herding cats comes to mind.

[billings31]

Who are these idoits who want all the standized testing??? Have we not learned that when these tests are in place that education goes down hill? All school districts that I have been associated with that have these tests are now teaching at a level so that the students pass the test. Nothing else is taught. You think that doesn''t happen? Look again. The American education system is being dumbed down. Starting with the No Child Left Behind Act. Great idea but the implications have resulted in No Child Can Get Ahead of the One that is the slowest.