Matt Damon's speech to teachers

[KDMafia]

My mom always used to say that if you went by standerdized test scores she would have one kid who went to harvard and another kid that failed out of high school.

I always scored way higher than my grades would indicate because I test well. I am a fast reader and have good comprehension which helped. My brother got barely passed/failing scores even though he was a b /c student and excelled in classes that interested him.

It's a measurement, but it's not the only measurement and I hate that it's tied to funding. There are other ways to measure success at a school but everything can't be quantified. A high school has so may moving parts in it. You have home life, lack of funding for other activities and occasionally just luck of the draw in what students are in your class. Not to mention with charter schools and private schools potentially diluting the pool of public education to those who can't afford private schools or not able to utilize their resources. My best teachers were the ones who were creative and made sure that there were assignements that varied so that if you were weak in one area, you had opportunities to make it up in another.