Pre Assesment

for the beginning of every semester/year, each teacher, in a public school, has to incorporate by New York State a pre-assessment of each student on the material that the teacher will be teaching that semester/year. this pre-assessment tells the teachers what the students know, and throughout the semester/year the teacher needs to improve the scores of their students in the final assessment. did you know that districts use the data that they gain from these assessments to evaluate the teacher on whether they showed a significant amount of improvement towards their students throughout the course? did you also know that when it comes to budget cuts or layoffs that the districts also refer to these scores on whether they feel that the teacher is at a satisfactory level of teaching or that they should let them go? how do you feel as a teacher that your job relies on statistics, and not on your performance with the students in the classroom?