Education and it's ways

Well if someone doens't know I'm a teacher (and a student too). Today I spent all day correcting tests and once again I'm afraid of the ways education is going.
I'm not a freak teacher I don't think that tests are a way to plot a revenge against bad students and don't even think that tests must be hard. I just think that they must mesure if the students have learned what they were suposed to learn. I don't like traditional examinations because I don't really think that they mesure anything. Most of the times the student that had a terrible grade really learned more that the one that got a strait A.

Anyway... What am I worried about?
Well... even with me looking for different ways to asses the learning and writing easy tests the students (in general, thanks God there are exeptions) aren't capable to to the basics. I mean, to at least read a text and really understand what's written! I usually feel quite depressed, maybe the problem is with me.

A couple of weeks ago the headmaster of the school were I work asked me to make my test even dumbier (with this words) because parents seems not to care if their children are really learning something they want good grades. They say: "In the other school my child only got good grades if she or he isn't getting any here it's your problem" The kid that came from other school with excellent grades is a completely dumb and I have to make a miracle. And believe me I did this bimester. My last tests were completely dumb (and some found a way not to get good marks) but if you ask me if I'm happy I must say that I'm not. I don't want to be a teacher for this. It's just not right! What these kids will become? Completely assholes! It's strange to see things going this way...

Tomorrow It's the last day at school this semester. I'll get there only in August, I really need resting. I only have two more classes at the university and I'm done. HOLIDAYS!

ps. I'm trying to install another comment system, let's see how it works.