Tests, Pizza, Bald Principal--PARTY!!!

Recently, I read an article titled, “Watsonville High Students are rewarded with Pizza Party after Testing.” It is ridiculous that high schools must bribe their students with pizza and a principal shaving his head to achieve the results the state is looking for. At my former high school, the faculty attempted to entice us in similar manners, mostly just to get us to show up to take the test, let alone strive for “good” scores. High schools must resort to bribing students with food and silly promises because the students see the standardized tests as stupid, and rightly so. How well do these tests actually evaluate a student’s capabilities or a school’s ability to teach their students? When students view standardized tests as a joke, they become a joke; they are no longer accurate representations of what the state is striving to evaluate.