Commentary two

I agree with Shannen on her article about Free Birth Control. Like in her article says, Texas has been ranked 5 out 51 on 2011 final teen births rates among female aged 15-19. This is bad, and now not being able to get free birth control is even worst. A 18 year teenager might not be able to provide the money to pay for birth control. I agree with Shannen on the fact that if Texas was able to provide free birth control for women or maybe any kind of help to not pay so much for birth control, it wouldn't be one of the highest states on teen pregnancy rates. This way we will be able to prevent many unwanted pregnancies and many abortions like she talks about in her article. Now what makes people think that a teenager are financially stable to have a kid when they can't afford birth control. Texas needs to do something and provide all women free birth control. Also in a couple of weeks I have an appointment with my doctor and I was thinking of getting birth control, but after reading this article I am a little bit worry about how much I'm going to pay.

Commentary

I agree with Hunters argument about the new form of standardized testing, is not working out so much like they thought it would. Hunter argues about how the new procedure STAAR test replaced TASK test but it isn't any better. With this new procedure it was supposed to help limit all the number of standardized tests the students had to take each year but it did not help at all. Students are still in need of taking this test, like the mid-year benchmark test. I agree with hunter on the fact that all this standardized  test take time away from students and teachers. Students are losing out on education because they have to worry about passing one exam per class each year. Hunter gives a great example of this, elementary students instead of having a weekly spelling test or something similar to this they now have STAAR boot camp to help them prepare for the test. I also have a personal experience from my little brothers, when they had to take the STAAR test they spend about two weeks preparing for the test and when it came to the day of the test, they still didn't feel confident about it. They talked about all the time it was taking away from them, and also said they felt it was worst than the TAKS test. They need to do something about this and actually make it a better procedure, they need to help kids with their education in a better way than this.