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Yes, she wanted us to be targeted in regard to the extra coaching we were giving our weak-progress students because we probably couldn’t save anyone.
I think we don’t live in extreme times such as COVID, so there is little need to frame our situation in terms of triage. I am flabbergasted that a school leader — supposedly nurturing of the students under her charge — would think of us as expendable resources.
Maybe that’s why she is a vice-principal and I’m not haha.
But I’m not sure that i would want to pay the price to reach her level anyway.
I don’t mind standardised exams. There is a dopamine rush that I relish when I guide my students to game the system haha. But it seems that my pedagogical decisions will be scrutinised this year — I don’t like the feeling of being placed under the microscope
So she's basically saying to pick 8 to give up on and no longer try to help?
Goodhart's Law says that when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure. Unfortunately, examination pass rates and graduation rates have become that.
I'm still friendly to standardized tests though, because it's still one of the better ways to ensure accountability from the schools and teachers. But indeed it is susceptible to be gamed and it can incentivize teaching to only a certain subset