It really is pretty amazing to see how far this country has come in terms of education, and at the same time, we still seem to be treading in the same water we have been since the start of the 20th century. In retrospect, we see that it was asinine to give students standardized tests to measure their intellectual ability, however, we continue to do the same thing to this date. It was interesting to see that students would be forced into a 'vocational' program back then based on their standardized test scores. Now, oddly enough, the students who do not do as well on their standardized test scores are the ones who decide they want to go into the vocational schools to get more acquainted with a 'real world' job.
Piggy backing on the standardized test train, it is terrifying to think that they would give ELL students an IQ test and base their intelligence on it. It is hard enough for students who are not ELL to do well on the exam. It seemed to have provided additional 'evidence' for why minority students were not as smart as other students. In reality, it was a large form of propaganda that it seemed many people bought into.
I hope to see some good in Episode 3. It really is fascinating to see actual footage of what a classroom was like such a long time ago. There will be footage fifty years from now of our generation in schools that students will be watching trying to learn about what happened when we were in school.
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