Elementary school educators are venting their anger over statewide English tests they say were terribly written.
This is the second year the English Language Arts tests have been aligned with the state’s Common Core.
Educators at P.S. 321 say they like the Common Core standards, but this year’s test questions were unclear and inappropriate for their third, fourth and fifth graders.
“No one has ever seen a test that more poorly assessed the ability of their students, that it had. The test had nothing to do with the Common Core state standards,” said Avni Bhatia, a P.S. 321 teacher.
“We protected the children from the worst of the test. I don’t think most of them were too stressed out, but I think as educators and adults we were horrified and we feel the need to speak out,” said P.S. 321 Principal Liz Phillips.
A protest was also held in Cobble Hill at P.S. 29 where Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina taught for two decades.
A spokesman for the state education department defended the test saying, “The ELA assessments were developed, reviewed and edited by New York State teachers and then field tested with all students across the state. The tests measure the state’s ELA learning standards for reading and writing and use passages from grade appropriate fiction and nonfiction.”
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