Argumentative Essay On Opt Out

A new phrase has rapidly become familiar in schooling: "opt-out." Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of students are refusing to take state reading and math tests. The opinion is vary from people to people. Advocates of the opt-out test say that standardized test will result in student’s unbalanced learning and judge teachers unfairly. Opponents of opt-out test say that standardized test will close the achievement gap. In my opinion, the students should refuse to attend the standardized test.

The standardized test will lead school to spend most of time preparing the test, however, ignore another necessary things students should acquire. Because the state exams only test Reading and Math, school tend to use more time to teach student the test content and give less time to social studies, music, art, world languages, physical education, and even science. If the school continue to pay too much time in the reading and math,
We all know that teacher’s performance is not 100 percent positive correlation with student’s performance. There is always going to be a student that just doesn't care about school, this person will not try regardless of the teacher's efforts. There will also be student who simply won't be able to understand the material. Try as they might, the teacher might just not be able to make the information understandable for some students. What’s more, if teachers judged by students performance, they may only use their time and energy to teach smart students and ignore the students who traditionally score low. According to the survey of Washington post, responded by more than 1250 teachers among the USA, more than 70% teacher claimed that they will prefer to teach students who easier to get good grade if their performance is only based on students’ test score. Teachers should be rate by the academic quality, teaching skills and classroom