Mommy why do we have to take so many tests?

From Continuing change, by gatorbonbc

My six year old, 1st grader is going to do her third day in a row of standardized testing tomorrow.

She asked me tonight why she has to take those tests.

I, myself, am a teacher so I knew the answers… ‘um, sweetie, so testing corporations can get rich…’

No, no… I didn’t have the heart to tell her the truth.

So, I told her to do well for her teacher’s sake.

I said it was like giving the teacher a thank you at the end of each year.

I thought it a pretty good answer, considering Florida just passed a bill into law holding teacher contracts yearly based on test scores.

She didn’t like my answer.

Her response?

“Why can’t we just make her cookies instead?”

http://gatorbonbc.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/standardized-testing-from-the-mouth-of-babes-if-you-give-a-teacher-a-cookie/