MCAS Testing: Good or Bad, an in depth look

I recently took the 4th grade MCAS test in my school. I have a few complaints. ---First off, more than 3/4 of the year in Reading class was spent going over MCAS preparation study guides. We were scribbling notes writing essays on how cotton is grown and made into cloth, synonyms, ad verbs, commas etc. Boy that was soooooo much fun! I didn't really have a problem with it,but it was tiring, plus, i had …

…fund the programs and now they are not working. What is the government going to do now? The government better make some pretty big changes real soon or education is going to get really messed up, even more than it is now. I don't have any ideas to predict what they will do, so please write some comments on what you think! _I would like to thank Vinni119 for his essay on MCAS. Thank you