I spoke in Ed. Committee about holding high stakes evaluations for students and teachers in the most difficult school year in modern history. Members have no idea the unbearable stress that conducting the evaluations will bring to students, parents, teachers, and principals.
Why test when there is no plan to use the scores? Why test when we have nothing to compare from the previous year? Teachers conduct testing and benchmarks throughout the year, they know where the students are and record this--this is not the year for high stakes tests.
Teachers are doing the job of social workers, custodians, nurses, and tech experts. When teachers are out and there are not enough substitutes, other teachers have to cover extra classes and in many cases principals are covering those classes along with their endless duties.
At any given moment, a school could close for multiple days due to transmission increases--how in the world are principals and lead teachers supposed to take care of the daily crises and evaluate every teacher multiple times.
Teachers and principals have triple the workload and these evaluations seem like cruel and unusual punishment at this time when our students need so much extra care, not extra stress.
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