Teacher X: The end goal is to make public schools fail

By G. Romero Wendorf

 

McAllen ISD, as well as school districts across the RGV and state, are in the process of working through this year’s standardized school test: STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness).

 

Looking at Texas’s standardized tests, one may conclude that state legislators have a fetish with alphabet soup.

 

The standardized testing in the Lone Star State began in 1980 (AKA, the same year teachers began pulling out their hair, and students went on anti-anxiety meds) with the advent of TABS (Texas Assessment of Basic Skills), which assessed students’ skills in reading, writing, and mathematics.