President letter 3

Please don't push standardized testing. I question the value of testing in general, but my understanding is that the intent is to compare schools, and make sure schools are doing their best. That is valuable in normal times. This year is not normal times. This year testing data will be completely off, and will not be useful to evaluate schools. Teachers, school boards, parents, and school staff are putting out a great effort to get students safely back in the classroom. If we manage to do that in this year it would be a travesty to throw away the time we've worked so hard for on testing that won't provide useful data.

Please do what you can to stop standardized testing this year, and seriously consider the value of the testing in the future.