Standardized Testing
* As one of student Anita Martinez’s [Advanced Placement] teachers, let me concur with her assessment that standardized tests, as constructed, are a waste of time (Letters to the Valley Edition, Nov. 12). Parents and politicians, if you want to judge a school, visit the school, talk to the teachers, the parents and the kids, and quit reading a bunch of statistics. And quit wasting valuable class time with tests that aren’t even given at the end of the course.
MICHAEL HELWIG
Canoga Park
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