There is
such a degree of secrecy surrounding N.Y.S. Common-Core tests that you might mistake
it for the Manhattan Project. Teachers
are not privy to share any of the specific questions with the public. Nonetheless, one can find many generalized
criticisms of the exams on the internet (like here and here). One can also speak with teachers who proctored
the exams as well as the children who took them at the different grade levels.
I haven't heard one person praise the exams. A friend noted, however, that the readings
seemed reasonable, but the questions were not. I can only go on hearsay.
In case
you're wondering why Common-Core tests are classified, I have absolutely no
idea. But I can take some educated
guesses.
The Top Ten
Reasons for Keeping the Content of the N.Y.S. Common-Core Tests Secret:
10. P.A.R.C.C. or Pearson may intend to use these questions
again. If they can recycle the same
trash, there is no need for creativity on their account or on our account.
9. These questions may cause controversy if it
is discovered that they were borrowed, in part, as in the past, from the testing
company's purchasable review books.
8. If parents learn the length and content of
the exams, they make seek to shelter their children before the six-day cycle of
suffering has ended.
7. People with a Ph.D. really don't need to know
at an advanced age that they couldn't pass a third-grade Common-Core test--and that neither could the
politicians, policymakers and test makers.
6. People can't handle the truth. If the test questions are publicized, there
may be riots in the streets.
5. Releasing the contents of the exams might
prove a grave national security risk.
4. Imagine if these questions should fall into
the wrong hands. Terrorists might gain
hold of them and use them to threaten civilization as we know it today.
3. Last year's tests failed 70% of NY state's
children. These test questions might be
circulated on the internet and used as weapons of mass destruction.
2. You know what happened with Roswell. If Americans actually see the questions, they
may believe, beyond any doubt, that it is proof of contact with
extraterrestrial beings!
1. If we actually
find out about these questions, we might have to meet the same fate as the
famed talking pineapple of April 2012.
We might need to be bumped off.
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