{"id":61664,"date":"2015-03-12T08:06:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=61664"},"modified":"2015-03-12T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:06:55","slug":"vwhs-teachers-testify-on-student-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/03\/12\/vwhs-teachers-testify-on-student-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"VWHS teachers testify on student testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n

COLUMBUS — Two Van Wert City Schools teachers traveled to Columbus on Tuesday to testify before the Senate Education Committee in a hearing on school testing.<\/p>\n

Chuck Rollins, a science teacher at VWHS, and George Scott, a high school social studies and psychology teacher, spent the day at the Statehouse meeting with state senators to discuss the new testing requirements implemented by Ohio for this school year.<\/p>\n

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VWHS teachers Chuck Rollins and George Scott testify before the Ohio Senate Education Committee.<\/strong> (photo submitted)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rollins and Scott were joined by teachers from Cincinnati Public schools, Miami Valley Career Tech Center and Triad, as well as Darold Johnson, OFT legislative director, and OFT President Melissa Cropper.<\/p>\n

Two parents of children in Cincinnati Public schools also participated in the Legislative meetings to voice their concerns.<\/p>\n

One of the main concerns raised by teachers, administrators and parents about the new state assessment programs is the amount of instructional time that is being lost in order to administer the tests.\u00a0 Teachers are concerned about covering the state standards required for each course before the tests are implemented, while parents have expressed concern about the amount of stress students are placed under with high stakes testing and the impact that testing is having on their attitudes towards school and their overall physical and mental health.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, administrators have been scrambling to accommodate the online testing requirements and juggle the school calendar to meet the testing deadlines.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like the dialogue that we had Tuesday with our state legislators was extremely positive and it is obvious to me that our state leaders are as concerned as we are about the new testing protocol,\u201d Rollins said. \u201cThe senators that we were able to speak with individually were very interested to hear about our concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that we were able to clearly explain the issues at hand and that we provided some possible suggestions to reduce the testing burden on school districts,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was an honor to get to testify at the Senate Education Committee\u2019s hearings on state testing on behalf of teachers, parents, and administrators across the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the members of the Senate Education committee, chaired by Senator Lehner, are totally committed to improving our testing protocols to allow us to assess student learning while minimizing the disruptions to instructional time for our children,\u201d Rollins concluded.<\/p>\n

“Although we are a relatively small district in the state of Ohio, it is evident that policymakers in the General Assembly value the input\u00a0Van Wert has\u00a0in regards to\u00a0any legislation affecting our students,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/submitted information COLUMBUS — Two Van Wert City Schools teachers traveled to Columbus on Tuesday to testify before the Senate Education Committee in a hearing on school testing. Chuck Rollins, a science teacher at VWHS, and George Scott, a high school social studies and psychology teacher, spent the day at the Statehouse meeting with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 19:46:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}