Commentary on TX Government: A breed of its own

Samantha's statement, "TAKS,a measure of success? Not really", makes a lot of sense to me. I never thought anything about teachers trying to prepare us for the test and only the test until I read the blog. I completely agree with this based on personal experience. When I look back at my entire school life we were always preparing for the test. In eighth grade I remember my teacher telling us that we were going to have to write a persuasive paper for our test, so we wrote a persuasive paper over and over again until we had it perfect. Therefore, we did not learn to write any other style of papers that year. I totally support the statement that TAKS is not a measure of success.