Thursday, September 5, 2013

A Letter To The Editor

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The Editor
Eiton Haaretz

106 Chamber Road
Los Angeles, California 
Holon

Dear editor

I must say I enjoyed reading your article "
Israel suspends standardized tests"
As a former student I have done all the meitzav exams through the years, I remember myself and my teachers trying to achieve the highest grade on that test.
I studied hard and my teachers were giving us a lot of practice so we could get the highest grade and make our school successful.
I think that suspending the meitzav tests or the standardized test is a great choice, I hated doing them and I remember that all the hard work preparing for them took a lot of our time, time we could have used to study more material and advance in our studies.

What I'm trying to say is that I agree with Shay Piron the minister of the education to suspend the meitzav test because of the damage they cause to the education in our country. Exams are made to test the student's  knowledge at the material he is learning in his class.
But if the exam is concentrating in compressing him(ww.- not clear what you mean) to another student it won't help him to improve and learn from his mistakes.

"In a world based on cooperation, teamwork and creative thought, we’ve enslaved our children to endless memorization that ends with them sitting alone in front of the paper and hoping to get better grades than the person sitting next to them"( you have to write whose words these are, that’s how I felt, instead of enjoying my studies and be interested in what I learn I was forced to learn my material for one cause and that's to succeed in the meitzav exam.

Today if you are not interested in what you are learning you are like a machine, you work hard but you don’t feel that you connect with material. I think the students needs to do more workes and  projects about things they love and understand.
It will be essential and easier for the student because they will learn and enjoy but also work hard to achieve the grade they want to have.

I hope I shed a new light on the subject of your article.

Sincerely yours,

Tom Potter Jones.   

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Daphna

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