Hello again. I haven't been posting for the last few weeks for a very simple reason: there hasn't been much to post about. Two of the past three weeks haven't even had an EPC meeting, the department heads instead electing to meet privately.* Anyway, we did meet last Thursday, and we're all just trying to hammer out the graduation requirements. I continue to look forward to sharing those with y'all when they're ready.
In other news: standardized tests! If you're a Junior, you've been dealing with the SAT and ACT over the past few weeks. These are a pain, I know, but at least you don't have it as bad as students in public schools, who have to take an average of 117 standardized tests in their school careers:
Talking. Pineapples.
It's amazing how many of our nation's problems can be traced back to monied interests. All of this is, thankfully, not a major issue at the Putney School, but it's always nice to have a reminder of how good we have it. As your EPC representative I promise not to allow standardized-style testing to incur any further onto the Putney curriculum, except, perhaps an option for the school to help facilitate prep for the SAT and ACT (possibly, depending on circumstances), which I think have slightly more value than multiple standardized tests a year for kindergarteners. Either way, I think Putney should look at trying to stop purchasing Big 2 textbooks (Pearson & McGraw-Hill).
What do you think, what are your experiences with standardized testing? Should we be trying to move away from paying big ed (who honestly rip us off anyway)? Respond in the comments, or you can email or tweet me your answers.
See you all next week!
*I have met this blatant attempt to exclude the student voice from the educational forum of the school with brave resistance, and I invite you all to join me in the fight against the corrupt, power-hungry adults of this school with the American spirit of resistance. For justice for FREEDOM!**
**Please note: Sarcasm
In other news: standardized tests! If you're a Junior, you've been dealing with the SAT and ACT over the past few weeks. These are a pain, I know, but at least you don't have it as bad as students in public schools, who have to take an average of 117 standardized tests in their school careers:
Talking. Pineapples.
It's amazing how many of our nation's problems can be traced back to monied interests. All of this is, thankfully, not a major issue at the Putney School, but it's always nice to have a reminder of how good we have it. As your EPC representative I promise not to allow standardized-style testing to incur any further onto the Putney curriculum, except, perhaps an option for the school to help facilitate prep for the SAT and ACT (possibly, depending on circumstances), which I think have slightly more value than multiple standardized tests a year for kindergarteners. Either way, I think Putney should look at trying to stop purchasing Big 2 textbooks (Pearson & McGraw-Hill).
What do you think, what are your experiences with standardized testing? Should we be trying to move away from paying big ed (who honestly rip us off anyway)? Respond in the comments, or you can email or tweet me your answers.
See you all next week!
*I have met this blatant attempt to exclude the student voice from the educational forum of the school with brave resistance, and I invite you all to join me in the fight against the corrupt, power-hungry adults of this school with the American spirit of resistance. For justice for FREEDOM!**
**Please note: Sarcasm
