Wendy Davis, candidate for Texas governor, is slamming rival Gregg Abbott’s education plan for 4-year-olds, saying it would overwhelm young children.
As reported by CBS 11 News, the dispute stems from Abbott’s support of a plan to require standardized tests for pre-K children as a means of determining whether the programs are working or not.
Davis seized on this portion of the plan stating: “four-year-olds should be coloring with crayons and not filling in bubbles with a number 2 pencil. Under the guise of quality he calls for putting more tests first, not our kids.”
Davis went on to tell the members of the Texas Retired Teachers Association at their annual convention that if elected, Abbott would destroy the classrooms they left behind.
“That vision of the classroom, a place where the joy for learning, is replaced by teaching to the test. [This] is apparently how Greg Abbott sees our schools.”
CBS 11 News spoke with several parents and “[w]ithout exception, every parent who talked with CBS 11 News said they wouldn’t want their kids tested in pre-kindergarten.”
You can watch a news clip on the controversy, below.
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