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In reply to the discussion: 20-fold increase in standardized testing coming with Gates Foundation's "Common Core": [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)even have textbooks for every student or paper, & you think the *students* are going to come up with computers for the school by doing a "drive" among their low-income parents & friends. Her students are the children of farmworkers, a lot of them immigrants from Mexico whose parents can't speak english & are just scraping by.
Teachers don't design the curriculum, they don't make the rules, they don't design the testing regime, they can't even protect their jobs or keep themselves from being vilified in the press as "pervs," & you think they can get computers for their schools by asking their students to do a "computer drive".
That might work in a nice little upper-middle class suburban district, but those districts already *have* computers aplenty. Which still doesn't mean they get to use those computers to do testing in their own way, because the rules come from above.
My friend spent $1000 of her own money on supplies her first year until she realized she couldn't keep doing that every year. She still spends a bunch getting basic stuff like paper, copies, stuff for bulletin boards, etc.
You are clueless, and all about blaming teachers.