I was intrigued by the headline in the May 7 Forum that screamed “Assessment tests are violation of family privacy.”
While not having a dog in the school testing fight, I was interested to see how the author, Joseph Mendola, was going to make the argument that assessment tests were somehow an invasion of privacy.
Alas, the piece was long on generalizations and short on examples.
Some instances of the “behavioral and cultural questions” that constituted an inappropriate intrusion into family values would have been helpful. Instead, the piece drifted off into federal and state conspiracies for commandeering education away from local control and a Trump-like contention that multi-national corporations have “embraced Common Core and the assessment testing because they see students as human capital.”
Please. A convincing argument is based on the accumulation of facts, data and examples, not repeatedly stating the same generalizations at an increasingly louder volume.
Chuck Annal
Concord