I believe that those who institute policies and/or programs that impact students and teachers do so not to harm the quality of education of students but to be of benefit. Often what happens is that these policies and programs are put in place without fully thinking through ALL of the possible outcomes...the positive and negative ones
So, for example, let's say that a state government wants to have ALL public school students take various tests. Okay, are they thinking through the impact on the daily schedule? Are they aware of the impact on the amount time lost for teaching and learning? Are they sure that the tests are valuable? Have they taken into account the input of school districts? There are other concerns that should be weighed.
There are any number of programs and policies that, again might be well intentioned and even might be helpful, but, sadly, are fully vetted or thought through. And we end up where we're at.
Dick
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