美国佛罗里达州埃尔南多郡，人们最近因为新推出的“佛罗里达新标准化考试”法案(Florida Standards Assessment, FSA)吵得不可开交。而有一名9岁女孩不愿意任由大人们摆布，她决定挺身而出。

这名叫西尼·斯穆特(Sydney Smoot)的9岁女孩，是佛罗里达州布鲁克斯维尔小学的一名4年级学生。在她母亲的帮助下，她起草了一份演讲词（母亲只是帮忙修改），并面对州教育委员会的成员，亲自做了逻辑清晰、极具感染力的演讲。

“教育委员会的各位女士、先生，我恳请你们尽快停止这种高风险考试！”西尼·斯穆特义愤填膺地说道，“我认为自己是一个受过良好教育的年轻人，但是有了FSA考试之后，我在学校5年的努力就都变得一文不值，FSA考试将我看成一个数字，这一次考试就决定了我是成功还是失败。”

FSA考试，佛罗里达这一新的评价手段，要求学生签署一份协议——学生被禁止与父母讨论与FSA考试有关的内容，而且学生的成绩（等级评定）只会在每个学期结束时给出。西尼说，“我有权利和我的父母谈论任何一件关系到我学校和学业的事。”

反对者认为，FSA考试虽然希望学校能够为学生的教育负起责任，但它却将原本该用在不同学生个体身上宝贵的时间与资源通通夺走。西尼也觉得FSA考试不能衡量她的能力或学识，“为什么我们要花一年中的绝大多数精力，来准备学期末的一场决定性考试？……我的观点是，我们应该在学期刚开始、学期中、学期末分多次参加考试，这才能准确测试我们所学到的东西。”

另外，她还觉得FSA考试给她和她的同学们带来了不健康的影响，“为什么当我们本应在学校学习和玩乐时，却要为FSA考试承受这么多的压力？”

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以下是演讲稿原文，可对照视频观看：

…I consider myself a well-educated young lady. However with FSA tests, my five years of school …do not matter. This testing looks at me as a number. One test defines me either as a failure or a success through a numbered rubric. One test at the end of the year that the teacher or myself will not be able to see the grade until the school year is already over. I do not think all this FSA testing is accurate to tell how successful I am. It doesn’t take into account all of my knowledge and abilities, just a small percentage.

Here are my concerns. First of all, I do not feel good about a form on the FSA that you have to sign assuring that you can’t even discuss the test with your parents. I am not comfortable signing something like this. I have the right to talk to my parents about any and everything related to school and my education.

Second, why am I being forced to take a test that hasn’t even been tested on students here in Florida? So how can it be accurate and valid on what I know? Why are we taking most of the year stressing and prepping for one test at the end of the year when we should be taking tests throughout the year that really measure our ability? My opinion is that we should take a test at the beginning of the year, middle and end of the school year to accurately measure what we know.

Third, the stress and pressure that this testing puts on me and I’m sure most students is not healthy. Why should we have so much stress about one test when we should be learning and having fun in school. With all this testing in school, more fun things in school such as recess are being eliminated because of all the training for the test.

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