Another ill of stressing testing

To the Editor:

For as long as almost anyone can remember, the one institution in our country which was rarely, if ever, accused of corruption was our school system — especially the teachers who are its mainstay.

Thanks to the corporate mindset that now decides what education should be, that is sadly no longer the case.

The innovative idea of evaluating both entire schools and individual teachers based primarily on the results of standardized tests, and then, even better, incentivizing the results, has taken care of that. What a shameful lack of foresight. To quote the best movie dialogue in the world, “I’m shocked, shocked!”

Irene Bernstein-Pechmèze, retired