I think today has been one of the lowest points in my life. First I find information about NJ testing from birth to three years old. Then I see the news that PARCC is a graduation requirement starting in 2016. When are we going to realize that children need to be allowed to live their natural lives? I was not on the normal track as an infant/toddler. I did not speak until I was 2 years old. If I had been tested and put into some program, there would have been the chance that I would have developed differently. Perhaps I would have hated school by the time i was 10. I may have become a drop out at age 16. Instead, my doctor wisely told my mother that I would talk when I was ready (yes I did go through some hearing tests etc). At age 2 I decided to talk. In full sentences. I never crawled either. I got up and walked. How do we know what would have happened in my life had I been forced to undergo testing and remediation at such a young age? Things are coming to a point where we have to start asking ourselves if these people are playing God and trying to recreate images in their own likeness. Gone will be individuality, creativity. gone will be options and choices for people to make through life. Their paths will be constricted by choices that others made to direct and influence their lives. All in the name of progress. To me, progress is people in society being able to recognize other people for what they are. Being able to recognize, see, and cherish it. If I was a parent of a young child being exposed to all this, I would have enormous fear that my child was being robbed of opportunity, opportunity to be who they really are.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:02:32 +0000