[nabs-l] Too much testing!

[Gerardo Corripio]

  HI guys I've always wondered the fact, do you guys think in some 
states in the US, they have way too much testing, Academic Asessment so 
as to instead of motivating a student to go to college, they disuade him 
or her from doing this? I understand the merits of wanting to maybe make 
sure the board of Education, of in my case Texas, ensure the students 
have the adequate academics, but wow making us suffer just to get this 
info? I don't know if it's still the same, but in my time there (the 
nineties), one had to pass what used to be called Tass (Texas Asessment 
of Academic StudiesI think it's the name) before graduating from high 
school, which I struggled in the Math part, having to take the darn test 
five or six times before finally passing the Math portion, thus how did 
you think I felt? desperate that I might not graduate from High School! 
and also in college, before continuing on to second semester, one had to 
take another sort of academic asessment test? Is it still the sane, and 
do you guys see purpose on making a student suffer like this? Again I 
understand the merrits of having these tests, but are they really 
necessary/useful, or what do you guys think of this topic?

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Gerardo J Corripio Flores Psicólogo, Terapéuta Reiki
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