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Originally Posted by Flickered Flame
If standardized tests continue, what will happen is that teachers will just close their doors and teach to the test rather than trying to develop critical thinking skills in students.
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Critical thinkers are more likely to actually pay attention to rhetorical nonsense and call the political parties on it - why would any populist based party EVER want a voter base of critical thinkers? It's much easier to control a population of mentally lazy followers who react emotionally rather then intellectually.
I've never comprehended the hate that teachers get when it's clearly the administration level (and bureaucracy that manage the managers) that is the problem in our education system. But then, it's easier to scream and shout about unions and greedy teachers then to find systemic issues to solve (intellectual laziness).