Week 7 Blog Post

I was assigned to read “Challenging Our Labels: Rejecting the Language of Remediation by Tejada, et al (page 130).

Many students were put into remedial classes. They never thought they would be put into this kind of class but when they figure out that there are placed into this kind of class they get shocked. Students throughout the nation get tested before they begin college and when they get tested they figure out that they are placed under the grade-level classes. Students don’t want to be placed under these classes because it becomes disappointing for them to say to their family that they were not successful in achieving the grade level they wanted to placed in. Even the students who were earning a high GPA during their high school were getting placed below their grade level and they were concerned with their college career. It delays them to finish their requirements for the career they want to go into.

I think this kind of test is useless because it doesn’t measure the student’s intelligence and labels them as below the class level. I have been there as well. When I moved from Idaho to Ohio I was required to take a placement test and I didn’t do so well on an English test. After that, I was put into a regular English class and another class to help me with the regular class. When I was given an extra class to help me with the regular class, I felt as if I was not smart enough to be in college. The extra class also took up space because I could have been taking some other class instead of taking that extra class.