To: The Idaho State House
Idaho House of Representatives: Please protect our children and teachers from harmful education p...
Federally mandated high-stakes tests distract from true learning, create harmful stress and anxiety for our children and drive good teachers out; plus, they create a whole new avenue for corporate profiteering—the corporate testing industry. Please OPT IDAHO OUT and protect Idaho citizens from this aggressive illegal overreach by the federal government that is harmful to our children, their teachers and citizens’ constitutional rights to self-government, including the establishment of local education standards and practices rightly guided by the citizens of Idaho.
Why is this important?
The practice of government-mandated high-stakes testing is harmful to our children, their teachers and our public education system and must be stopped in its tracks, because they are not scientifically based; foster test-driven education; foster coercion over cooperation; support complicity of corporate interests; promote a culture of lying, cheating and exploitation within the school community; present a racial and economic bias that is detrimental to second language students, impoverished students, and students of color; put at risk, by personal data collection, our children’s constitutional right to privacy, and blatantly manifest the over-reach of the federal government into the lives of our children, teachers and public education systems in Idaho.