Why Is Standardized Testing Unnecessary

Growing up with a huge amount of love for education I went to school everyday even when I was sick. My favorite subject being math, I would look forward to going everyday, but that all changed in 2002 when the No Child Left Behind act passed, the US slipped from 18th in the world in math on the Programme for International Student Assessment to 31st place in 2009 (ProCon.org). In the state of Texas study shows that the average student takes about 113 standardized tests between Pre-K and 12th grade (Sanchez). Parents nationwide are beginning to question whether or not these state mandated tests are helping their children at all. Many citizens along with myself believe that these test are unnecessary, because they take up so much time and don’t measure students’ educational quality. Standardized testing has taken up so much instructional time and they still have not improved student achievement. Students have a difficult time in school in general and when these tests are thrown at them they don't take them seriously. Also testing starts in the third grade, but schools start administering test before, so kids can become accustomed to taking them.
Over time the amount of education obtained by the students has dramatically decreased. These tests are starting to take up a galore of
Obama stated. Standardized testing is becoming a progressively talked about topic in the United States and as the issue continues to grow people will begin to realize what it is truly doing to the students. As a student who currently experiences all this is testing I see that there is no real purpose to it. I personally took this research into my own hands and asked a retired teacher about the testing. Her response was brief and to the point “School is no longer fun as it once was and I have seen a decrease in education