First blog · 8:37am Apr 26th, 2014
Well this is my first blog post, and to be quite frank with you i don't know how this whole 'blog' thing works so i'm gonna guess how to do this.
For those of you who do not know my name is steven and i enjoy coffee and golf. I'm am the person behind tech savy (don't know why i'm being so dramatic, like 3 people know i even exist). But i digress, i guess i should give my opinion on something going on in my life so here we go.
I hate FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test) because it's execution is faking ridonkulous. The teachers have no idea wtf is going on and the test itself has so much hype/preparation, but in the end, it's just a simple test. Oh and about a week after people have FINISHED the test (because other people are testing) you have to sit at a desk doing nothing but reading. I love reading as much as the next guy, more so even, but that doesn't mean i want to read for 7 hr's straight. I don't have a solution for this problem in my head at this time, but you'd think they'd be a bit more careful when planning this huge ass test that EVERYONE need to take instead of saying "Oh FCAT? yeah, let's just wing it. let's see what happens.".
So that was my rant for the day, and if you're reading this i want to thank you for reading my first blog post.
Tech savy- signing off.
First of all I'll note this: I'm International Baccalaureate (IB) when it comes to public education, which means I am except from FCATs because they are considered inferior to my "best of the best" education. I know that sounds arrogant, but it's how we view the FCAT; whenever it comes up, both we and our IB teachers all mock and make fun of the FCAT for not being good, and for in fact teaching us the wrong ideas and habits for how to succeed (at least in terms of what none needs for the IB Program, do it please ya)
So I'm in perfect agreement that it's stupid and pointless, and in fact teachers teach to the test (IE, they teach you not what's good to learn, but what you need to pass the test), which is just really bad form.
Here in Land o' Lakes, we got one of the hardest, best high schools in the whole nation, and it's the home on the county's IB Program. IB here basically notes that its mission statement is to prepare and train the next generation of world leaders; when I graduate in about a month, I'll have a masterwork series of scholarships just given to me + a diploma recognized as highly desirable by any school from the Americas to Europe. Even so, we look down on the FCAT. We've been hearing the announcement every morrow lately, and we've just been poking fun at/ignoring them. It's a confused mess that encourages bad traits in both teachers and students, and I fully agree with your points here, do it please ya.
For all out perceived "elitism" in the IB Program, I'll have you know that yestern at lunch [me and my group of friends sit al fresco, where nobody watches us] all we did was blow up balloons I brought and then played darts with them, popping them and at one point throwing bricks and kicking and punching to pop the balloons. I love my friends. One of them, the one who dropped the brick on the giant balloon was Ylv (or at least the Finn upon whom Ylv is based)
2048280 Well here in sarasota we have some pretty nice schools our selves. Pineview, Booker and SMA (sarasota military academy) all have there pros and cons to them. But yeah, the FCAT is the most unorganized and unneeded test in the states in my opinion, even if it is on the Konpyūta.
The reason for the FCAT is to evaluate students intelligence, therefore helping to decide where that student ends up next year. But theres a much simpler way to do that that taking a 50-odd question test.
Isn't it ironic that some of the people that have the most influence over something usually decide the worst decisions for that something?