Schooled for What: Leaving the Test-Score Mentality Behind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798282665215)

What if everything we were taught to value in school-grades, test scores, and perfect attendance-was never the real lesson?

In Schooled for What?, Wendi Clemenson shares a deeply personal journey of questioning the system that raised her and choosing a different path for her children. From the emotional weight of standardized testing to the absence of life skills in the classroom, this book explores how public education often misses the mark when it comes to preparing kids for real life.

Told with raw honesty and heartfelt reflection, this is not an academic critique-it's a conversation starter. A look inside one mother's realization that school was shaping her children in all the wrong ways, and her decision to reclaim their learning with love, values, and real-world experience.

Whether you're a parent navigating school choices, an educator questioning your impact, or someone still healing from your own classroom years-this book is for you.

It's time we asked the hard question: Schooled... for what?