Freire’s views on standardized testing is that it is not efficient for students because in today’s society we use a system called banking education which basically means that teachers teach a one way path that follows the standardized test. Students think more than one way which means that a kid that is smart could fail the standardized test because they don’t think in the form that the standardized test is written or may not understand the way that the teacher teaches the subject. Freire says “the solution is not (nor can it be) found in the banking concept. On the contrary, banking education maintains and even stimulates the contradiction through the following attitudes and practices, which mirror oppressive society as a whole: (a) the teacher teaches and the students are taught (b) the teacher knows everything and the student knows nothing (c) the teacher thinks and the students are thought about (d) the teacher and the students listen- meekly.” Freire would agree in a system where many methods are used and where students aren’t judged on how much they know through a standardized test. I agree with him because I do not believe that it is fair that special needs kids and students that do not know and understand English well are expected to do the same test even though they think a different way.
