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Message: <blockquote data-quote="turkeyrun" data-source="post: 2405133" data-attributes="member: 27991">Teaching the test is NOT teaching.The school systems have been on the way down for a long time. Back in the mid '60's when the 'system' got away from teaching the basics. Reading, writing and phonics was changed to sight and memory, as was taught to deaf children. Because deaf children learned this way, it would be the best for all and STANDARDIZATION must be better, as testing on a level field would point out low achieving schools / teachers and PROVE these were lower achieving because the testing was standardized. Remember all those 'achievement tests'? We would 'race' to see who could fill in the circles fastest and never read the question.I was taught phonics, my wife, my brother and my sister were not. Their spelling skills are awful, they read much less than I do and their math skills are lower. They know and admit this, not my assessment.  Look at some of the posts on this forum and the use / misuse of the language. ie. their vs. there vs. they're. A typo is one thing and I overlook, because my own typing is so much slower than what I am trying to put into the typed statement, but basic misuse of the language just makes me shake my head. Regardless of 'grammar police' statements, this is just a lack of basic education. I see the same things happening with my grandkids under Common Core and the dumbing down of America. Common Core needs to eliminated NOW. The school systems need to return to TEACHING as was done pre-1960.</blockquote>

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