Pacifica Radio topic

I decided to write about the Seattle Teacher Uprising topic. The teachers at Garfield High School, in Seattle are expected to receive a 10 day, no pay suspension for boycotting a  standardized math test that they have to give their students every year, to evaluate their academic level. The teachers are saying it's a civil rights issue, because not all of the students have the same resources to be able to prepare for the test. They mentioned that it was mostly students of color who did not have the equal resources, like a computer to help them prepare. They also mentioned that the test doesn't allow for  any accommodations made for students with special needs, making it hard for them to succeed.  They also said that some things on the test are usually never taught to students, and that it  makes it difficult for them to succeed this way as well. I think it's a good idea for teachers to boycott the standardized tests. They're standing up for something they believe in, and trying to create a better way of evaluating students academically. Students don't care about those tests anyways, sometimes they just bubble in random answers just to finish early, and get it over with. That's what I did sometimes. Towards the end of some standardized tests, I remember seeing certain math questions that I had never seen, or been taught before. Seeing that would just frustrate me, and I'd bubble in some random answer. Boycotting these tests is a good idea, the teachers simply don't want to set their students up for failure, resulting in faulty test scores. Maybe with this, someone can come up with a better idea on evaluating students academically.