Video with my narration is in the previous post, but here’s the written version:
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Measuring
Shawn L. Bird
This is me.
The standardized test says,
“She’s a C.”
But no standardized test
can measure my capacity.
The provincial exam or S A T
does not evaluate my reality.
A test does not see
my creativity
my audacity
my tenacity
my congeniality
No test can reveal
my totality.
They say
a standardized test demands gravity,
but I say,
it is a depravity
to define our youth with such rationality!
This is me.
No standardized test can measure
who I will be.
Shawn L. Bird 
I really like this!
Thanks
This is the prime argument against standardized testing. People are not to be pigeon-holed nor their creativity ignored. Hurrah for individual differences!
Indeed.
There is a LOT of truth in this poem. A LOT!
Thanks
Reblogged this on BOOK CHAT and commented:
Testing – what it doesn’t measure.
Indeed. and thankfully, they still haven’t yet figured out a way to test for everything!
Class room observation during active learning is still the best for most things.
Flesh and blood trumps pen and paper any day for that special learning. Although to be fair, many thousands of years ago, through class observation, the teacher felt I was “backward” and wanted me placed in special ed. My mother had a fit because she knew better. After testing, they discovered in first grade, I had a 6th grade reading, comprehension, and math abilities – the problem was, I needed glasses!
And the process of getting glasses is a standardized test! In my case, it was teachers who recommended I get my eyes tested.
Well, I was in elementary school in 1956 so I am not sure if the test was around then.
Then it could have been using the individual lenses in a box, not the lens machine, but the administration of the eye exam is done to standardized procedures then as now.
The standardized tests simply don’t measure up your exacting standards!
They have a purpose, but people confuse what they are appropriate for.
Standardized tests confuse the tool and the task. It’s as if you asked someone to build a house, and after years of effort they cheerfully hand you a printed blueprint as the finished product.
Excellent analogy.
LOVE!
Thanks. Check out the video version from yesterday!
Great poem, I like the fact that we can all relate to this.
We are more.
Just wanted to say again how very powerful this is, and how amazingly written. 🙂
Thank you.
logic
has no
imagination
True.
Reblogged this on The Absentminded Professor, in the making and commented:
Take that education system!