It's official!!!

I hate grading. It fucking sucks shit. No other way to put it. When kids have low skill due to whatever reason how can I really fairly judge them at their grade level. I can see where they need to be, but how do I grade them? It's not fair to grade a child and link funding to schools based on this ridiculously classist, racist, norm referenced test. The test is made for the dominant culture. Those not of that culture, unfamiliar with that culture, timid in that culture, or defiant of that culture will not do well.

A problem I see is that society places too much importance on the form of the message instead of the message. We focus on the finger pointing to the moon instead of the moon. Important human messages can be communicated through all the dialects, pidgins, or creoles in the world. But power is placed in one variation. That is the standard. I'm writing this in English not American. Am I to grade a kid based in large part on their adherence to narrow WASP standards?

"I'm sorry, I'm fittin' to get me a new pencil does not probably communicate your idea."

"You should say, "I would like to get a new pencil."
or
"I am going to buy a new pencil."

Just bitching while I take a break from grading.