No student or educator in my experience has ever said they like iReady or find it useful. iReady takes up 2 class periods per semester for high schoolers, waisting valuable class time for no good reason.

In grades k-8, students are required to complete iReady lessons for a grade. These lessons are meant to improve their English and Math skills, but in reality do not. One study from a California State Grad student on students in a California school with a similar program showed zero improvement in students who used the iReady lessons, despite the iReady diagnostic itself saying there was a substantial improvement.

iReady is an ecosystem which manufactures a perception of growth, while in reality contributing nothing and using valuable class time and dollars which could be spent elsewhere.

The Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School committee should immediately vote to cancel iReady testing, and reallocate the approximately $40,000 dollars it spends on this program a year to supplements which actually work.