Teachers are suffering from being ranked on test scores, and people have forgotten the fact that the tests that are deciding many individuals future are unfair with many gaps on effectiveness. Society fails to remember that a teacher’s job is to educate the students and is prohibited to curve their scores and even efforts. Parents and students are holding teachers responsible for the student’s grade, blaming teachers for failing the child or for not properly doing their job. As a result, districts now solely rank teachers based on student’s exam scores, determining how good of teachers they are. Ranking teachers does not improve accountability because teachers have no dominance over the student’s life outside of school, student test scores
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A student’s understanding of the language really influences their score, the student may have done very well if the test was in their primary language, and a teacher cannot control the student’s understanding of the language, they can help improve their knowledge of the language but even then it takes years to perfect it. Another factor that teachers cannot control is a student’s income background (Teacher Accountability). Some students come from wealthier families than others, affecting the student’s score more than the teachers. Less fortunate students may not have the money for extra educational resources and help as a wealthy student would, affecting their score and knowledge. While a teacher may offer thee knowledge and tutoring, some students need more than what a teacher can offer. A rate over 30 million children living in the United States are living in poverty, and from that portion in some areas, every 300 children get only one book, causing literacy rates in the …show more content…
By ranking teachers, supporters believe that teachers will feel more responsible and learn from their rankings, focus on what they scored poorly on and work to improve it, benefiting their ranking score and the student’s education (Teacher Accountability). With the rank scores positioned in public, students may be disrespectful and judgmental to their teachers, discouraging them to teach the students to learn. Also with the known fact that their teachers are being ranked, students use the excuse of blaming their teachers for their lack of success. Kevin Kumashiro, the author of Bad Teacher!; How Blaming Teachers Distorts The Bigger Picture, states “ it’s really easy to scapegoat teachers because common sense prompts us to see education on the individual level". Using a study by Frameworks Institute to support his argument, about how society views teachers as the role models to their students, and yet they blame teachers for the dysfunctional educational system, as teacher being not liable and are not providing enough effort into their job (Cindy Long). Parents and students blame teachers for the student’s lack of effort and success, rather than blaming the ones who had absolutely no effort in finishing the assignment. Students do not have excuses as to why they did not go to school or college. Students are given many options for
A student’s understanding of the language really influences their score, the student may have done very well if the test was in their primary language, and a teacher cannot control the student’s understanding of the language, they can help improve their knowledge of the language but even then it takes years to perfect it. Another factor that teachers cannot control is a student’s income background (Teacher Accountability). Some students come from wealthier families than others, affecting the student’s score more than the teachers. Less fortunate students may not have the money for extra educational resources and help as a wealthy student would, affecting their score and knowledge. While a teacher may offer thee knowledge and tutoring, some students need more than what a teacher can offer. A rate over 30 million children living in the United States are living in poverty, and from that portion in some areas, every 300 children get only one book, causing literacy rates in the …show more content…
By ranking teachers, supporters believe that teachers will feel more responsible and learn from their rankings, focus on what they scored poorly on and work to improve it, benefiting their ranking score and the student’s education (Teacher Accountability). With the rank scores positioned in public, students may be disrespectful and judgmental to their teachers, discouraging them to teach the students to learn. Also with the known fact that their teachers are being ranked, students use the excuse of blaming their teachers for their lack of success. Kevin Kumashiro, the author of Bad Teacher!; How Blaming Teachers Distorts The Bigger Picture, states “ it’s really easy to scapegoat teachers because common sense prompts us to see education on the individual level". Using a study by Frameworks Institute to support his argument, about how society views teachers as the role models to their students, and yet they blame teachers for the dysfunctional educational system, as teacher being not liable and are not providing enough effort into their job (Cindy Long). Parents and students blame teachers for the student’s lack of effort and success, rather than blaming the ones who had absolutely no effort in finishing the assignment. Students do not have excuses as to why they did not go to school or college. Students are given many options for