Opinion

The Opiny Of Cizek Paper: The Long History of High-Stakes Tests

According to the history I strongly disagree with this High-Stakes tests because, the essential of the tests is to measure someones’ ability not to do killing. In this test there no tolerance for an error.. For example, if  there is  fugitives from the tribe of Ephraim when they tried to cross the Jordan river they will be asked “ are you member of the tribe of Ephraim? If the man replied that he was not, then they demanded. They also asked him to say “shibboleth”but if they can not pronounce the H sound in that word, they pronounced “Sibboleth”so they will be dragged away and killed.

I think in this present, this kinds of tests are not appropriate anymore, because as we know that all human beings have the right to live or in other words there is Human Right to defend their right because human lives are worthwhile. We should conduct tests to determine the human’s ability so that we can improve their knowledge until they can survive in a world full of problems and challenges. If there are 100 people who take the this examination and only 20% of them can pass , so, can you imagine that? In a year a country or a tribe lose their society about 80% of the people who follow the test and this will show social inequality and a country will lose a lot of human resources. If someone will be killed just by the test, so where is the moral value of the high-stakes maker?. In this article showed that a lot of people of  Ephraim who died just because of small mistake.

In our religion, killing people is a big sin, so the religion teach us about tolerance among others. In our country Indonesia, the Murder will be punished with a heavy  punishment. A teacher should not be scolded or said rude to students especially hitting or killing, just because they could not answer question in the test.