CE1 assessments are freely available (teacher and student booklets) on:
http://www.darcos-demission.org/
They are analyzed and discussed here: for
the French
http://4tous.net/ecoledemain/spip.php?article288
for math
http://4tous.net/ecoledemain/spip.php?article292
They will be passed on May 25 in class.
Below my rejection letter, hoping that other parents are mobilizing to turn against the inevitable failure of our children.
the Minister of National Education,
For months that parents and teachers were organized into collectives, open and non-violent, and try to make their voices heard regarding the reforms in Education.
In spring 2008 already, we expressed our fears about the introduction of new programs deemed unsuitable by the majority of teachers at a national consultation which you have ignored.
In January 2009, national assessments have crystallized CM2 many concerns about the dangerous path that our education system borrowed. Once again, you did not listen. The case begins to make some noise, threats have been wielded in the schools, the sanctions are dropped. Some radicals, you said, and the media to relay.
The school is our audience at all and that is why we defend it without counting. It is the good of our children, but where is the children's interest in all these reforms?
Where is the interest of my son, Simon, to pass these national assessments?
Where is the interest of Simon, a student applied, to make assessments on the skills he has not worked or has not yet assimilated?
Where is the interest of Simon, a good student, to make assessments of which the correction noted not only with O or 1?
Where is the interest of Simon, a student seven years to pass national assessments timed and results will be made public?
Where is the interest of Simon, to make assessments with results positioning in a slice rather strong when her boyfriend will be fragile and skills in a department performing the academy when his cousin will not be?
Where is the interest of Simon, sometimes anguished student, to make assessments, whose results will be frozen in a booklet that will follow him throughout his schooling?
Where is the interest of Simon, inquisitive student, to make assessments for a week when the new programs already leave him little time to study something other than French and mathematics?
Verily I say unto you, Sir Simon has no interest in these reviews, so it does not happen.
unmarked During this week, Simon will read, count, observe, supposing, doubting. It will also play, get bored, run, fall. But this learning, it will not make them in the classroom and believe that I regret. I have too high an opinion of the school and his teachers to let them into a mechanical caricature elitist and profitable.
Deny today to submit my child to a pressure and a failure as some useless part of the fight that I lead, with thousands of other citizens of coordination School in danger, to defend a public school where all students find their place at their own pace, with teachers trained and respected.
reforms are necessary but they should only be done in consultation with all stakeholders and in the sole interest of the child. I sincerely hope that a real dialogue moves, and I beg you to accept, Excellency, my best citizens.
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