Testing Is Not Education As I look back on my years spent in grade school and high school, I remember each as being vastly different from the other. I remember how they both shaped my life; how they changed my outlook on life itself. As I reflect on my time spent in middle school, I remember being excited to go to school. I was excited to see all my friends and to learn about new things together. I remember being in awe of the way the teachers helped us to learn how they shaped their curriculum to give us the best learning experience possible. Whatever subject or theme we were learning about it was all tied in with one another. For example, if we were learning about French we read French literature in English class, learned about the French Revolution in history class, and created art stylized after the French in art class.

The whole concept of learning this way was exciting to me. I wanted to learn everything I could about whatever subject they were teaching; waiting in anticipation for the next theme. Most of all I remember the classrooms; the brightly colored hues of the posters hung on the wall, my pens and pencils lined uniform like miniature soldiers in my desk, and the scratch of chalk scraping gently against the green chalkboard, I even remember the click of the …show more content…
I remember being taught at an extremely fast pace with tests almost every day. My excitement for school devolved at an extremely quick pace. My life was filled with nothing but five paragraph essays every night and tests the following morning. I tried to keep up as best as could but the teachers seemed to have no time for my questions. They rather seemed much more interested in reminding us how we had to do well on the MCAS every April. My grades began to slip, especially in English. I slowly became depressed; my life a boring monotony, my thoughts swirling around my mind, test questions and answers clouding my