i-Ready: Thoughts and Opinions

If you have heard the news, there is controversy surrounding the program we use during ELA or ELA WINs. Several sources have exposed how I-Ready is stealing student data. In addition to this rumor, many parents and students feel that I-Ready provides no actual growth in academic abilities. Parents are also concerned about their child’s screen time and how it affects their kids. 

A group of eight graders from iPrep Academy also feel the same way about the platform and that it is bad for kids' mental health. In this article, I will survey many students and see their opinion on I-Ready.

Allison Huh: I extremely dislike the platform I-Ready. I never learn anything.

Grayson Goldberg: I feel that I-Ready is extremely repetitive and data oriented rather than what the student actually needs. I also think that they were selling student data.

Daniel Lai: It is not very forgivable as a grade. If you get one wrong you will get a bad score. I-Ready also does not improve any academic abilities. I have not learned anything.

Ryan Li: I-Ready does not provide any educational learning and does not improve me in any skills.

Viviana Carrano: I feel that I-Ready is unnecessary. I don't feel like it helps me in any way.

Based on only five results it seems like everybody seems to hate or has not learned anything from the platform. I also personally dislike I-Ready as everything they have taught me is 4-5 grade level math such as area and other lessons students have already learned in the past year. The platform is, as Grayson said, extremely repetitive and repeats lessons at least three times. Many people on the internet call out I-Ready for being extremely frustrating. Questions are stretched out to the max and doing one question takes at least one minute. When you are doing multiplication and division I-Ready makes you answer each question step by step. For example if you were doing 32 x 12 it would ask you 2 x 2, 2 x 30, 10 x 2, and 10 x 30. It also asks for things like the regroup and the final step, the addition part. After all of that, you have just spent one minute doing one question when you could’ve done it in seconds. If you even get one part of the question wrong though it makes you wait 30 seconds as it gives you an explanation of what you should’ve done. This is the exact reason why I-Ready is so hated among students and worried about among adults.