Shallow Test Machine (based on Lennon and McCartney's "Yellow Submarine")

NY state may offer a two-year reprieve, allowing other evaluative measures to be used, for teachers rated ineffective based on the Common-Core test scores of their students.  However there is no student reprieve from the excessive testing.  And, there is no reprieve for teachers whose students bomb state tests, or other measures of student learning, that are not designated "common core."  In these scenarios, it's full steam ahead for junk science as NY state navigates the often dangerous and unfriendly waters of its RttT grant!  In that vein...

Shallow Test Machine (based on Lennon and McCartney's "Yellow Submarine")

In the town where I was born

Lived a man who failed to see
And he told us of his life
In the land of test machines.

So we failed ev-er-y-one
when we found their scans of green
And they died in many ways
In our shallow test machine.

We all live in a shallow test machine
Shallow test machine, shallow test machine
We all live in a shallow test machine
Shallow test machine, shallow test machine.

And our friends have all been bored
Many more of them have been scored
And the hand begins to slay.

We all live in a shallow test machine
Shallow test machine, shallow test machine
We all live in a shallow test machine
Shallow test machine, shallow test machine.

{Full speed ahead Mr. Throatstrain, full speed ahead
Full speed ahead it is, Regent
Set the cut score, raise the standards
Aye, aye, Sir, aye, aye
Commiss'ner, Commiss'ner}

As we live a life diseased
Every one of us hears students plead
Sky of blue and scans of green
In our shallow test machine.

We all live in a shallow test machine
A shallow test machine, shallow test machine
We all live in a shallow test machine
A shallow test machine, shallow test machine.

We all live in a shallow test machine
Shallow test machine, shallow test machine
We all live in a shallow test machine
Shallow test machine, shallow test machine.