I found this post at Why Homeschool to be very interesting. It's about a chapter in the latest book by the controversial institutionalized schooling critic, John Taylor Gatto. The latest book is called Weapons of Mass Instruction and the chapter is about The Bartelby Project.
The Bartelby Project is a call for kids who are in public schools to refuse to take part in everything to do with state testing by telling their teachers "I prefer not to take your test." He hopes to get 60 million kids to participate, thereby destroying standardized testing.
At any rate, it all makes for very interesting reading.
I'm not sure what I think about state testing. I know many - if not most - homeschoolers I know participate willingly in standardized testing. Our umbrella school does not require students to take these tests, and my children have never taken one, but I've thought about it from time to time. As their teacher, I really don't see how testing would help me. After all, I know how they're doing when I check their work and when I talk with them.
But, somehow, it just doesn't seem like "school" without taking those fill-in-the-bubble tests.
Click here for John Taylor Gatto's web site called Open Conspiracy.
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