#FtheTest
Standardized testing creates stressful and overly competitive learning environments that harm students’ growth as learners and people.
Ever since they were created, standardized high stakes tests have largely favored and been beneficial to white students and families who had access to better resources and educational support. While some students were being advantaged by standardized testing, it has caused other students to be actively prevented from getting the opportunities and education they deserve due to their race, financial status, ability, home language, and other identities.
Every year it perpetuates discrimination against already marginalized groups in society. As it has in so many ways, COVID-19 exacerbates these problems and makes the impacts of standardized testing harm students of color at an even larger scale than before.
It has always been inhumane to administer a test that caused harm for disadvantaged students, and this is even more true in the middle of a global pandemic.