Standardized Testing Persuasive Speech

I stand before you today to discuss the overuse of standardized testing. Children of these upcoming generations have it engrained in their minds that it is imperative that they prepare themselves for a schooling system with multitudes of tests. Children in these schooling systems are required by law to take standardized tests to represent their currents school. While this is seems beneficial to be funding; parents are not able to perceive how the school and teachers are attempting to construct this into the children’s schedules. Teachers are not only piling on the word for the kids preparing for these tests, but are also forcing all of this knowledge that in a short period of time onto these students. Students are forced to retain months of knowledge with the exception of the knowledge they know in just a week or less. Teachers are not preparing …show more content…
Newer students and future generations to participate in school should be able to know anything that they want to know. Students should be offered classes that have recently taken off of the school schedule. Classes such as history and English should be highly focused on because of how many classes and required information that they have taken away from out students. Students should be able to learn about everything that has occurred in our history, how we have adapted, how we have been taught, what we have been taught, they importance of what it means to be in this world, how to properly use our diminishing resources, how to build communities, how to properly handle money, how to sustain a healthy life etc. But instead we are removing this knowledge and cramming it all in a small amount of time so the school can have a positive reputation. We should focus on bettering the students of this world for our future benefit instead of bettering the position of the