Standardized Testing

I don't think that Standardized testing is important. It is used to compare smaller high schools, with an average teaching staff, to large ones with better qualified teaching staff. Also they use that to determine what kind of cirriculm a student should have. I believe that students should get to pick what classes they want to takebased on what they would like to do after high school. Another reason I think that Standardized testing is not important is because I belive that your intellegence is based on more than just book smarts. I belive that some students may not be good test takers but are very good students, overall. I think that a performance evaluation would be better to find out a students intelligence, than a standarized test where he/she is compared to the rest of the nation's students. Those are some reasons I dislike Standardized testing.