Standardized Me, Scotty

I was thinking about immigration and the way that Hazleton is printing important documents only in English when I thought about the standardized testing that keeps coming up in my Perspectives on American Education class. Standarized testing is very controversal with both sides vemenously defend their veiw. Unforunately both sides insist that they have what is best for the students in mind. These standardized tests cause problems for many children that have spoken English their entire lives. The PSSAs are given in English, so what about those students for whom English is a second language or haven’t had time to learn much English yet. Students that just moved into the country that have only a very basic knowledge of English have to take this test. Those students logically probably won’t be doing particularly well on that test. Those students could know the information and understand it, but if they aren’t “proficient” at reading English, they may not know what the question is even asking. As for math, these students may do better at math, but they probalby wont' be able to explain the problem in English or understand some of the word problems on the test. Some of the word problems confuse English "proficient" students with what they are asking, expecting a student that is just learning English to understand these is irrational.
As for the title, I just couldn't get the picture of young students lined up to get to go through the transporter, but to be become exactly alike instead to go somewhere else. Instead of "Beam Me Up, Scotty," it was a weird form of conformity. That made me think of A Winkle in Time and the planet where "It" rules all to the point where all small children play outside at a certain time each day each bouncing a ball in illusion. I realize this is probably one of the fallacies from pysch class, but it's what i thought of. Feedback anyone??