WASL

[spartan_343]

This WASL has to be the most pointless test ever created. They put you all in a room and make you take a test that a common 6th grader could pass and then they give you like 3 hrs. to take it. Seriously, the only way you could possibly fail is to fall asleep during the test...

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[lacuerva]

I've been saying it all day: that test is an insult to the collective intelligence of the SHS student body. And that's really saying something.

[spartan_343]

I know, even the dumb people should be able to pass it, and we have some pretty dumb people at skyline.

[lacuerva]

Well, to be (relatively) fair, Skyline's got a pretty smart population. However much we may disparage their pop culture, their test scores and GPAs are consistently high. I've heard conflicting reports as to whether 15% or (God forbid) 50% of all WA sophomores fail the WASL, but either way it's hard to imagine anyone from Skyline falling into that category. Since s o m e b o d y had the brilliant idea of designing a test that everybody in the state could pass, including really screwed-up districts like Tacoma (paging Ayn Rand!), that makes it ridiculously easy for our level of education.

Yay for egocentric arrogance. :P

[spartan_343]

Yeah, I just read a newspaper article at the gym that says only 36% of the people in Seattle passed all three sections of the WASL last year. That's really sad. I wonder what they teach at those schools...

[lacuerva]

Maybe it's not a lack of willingness to teach, but a lack of resources. After all, they do have to close twelve schools this year because they can't fund them anymore. Twelve. That's a lot.

For all that people wank about how tough the coursework is here or how the teachers aren't paid jacksquat - damn, we're lucky.

[spartan_343]

True... I guess I just started making judgements too quickly.

[lacuerva]

Haha, don't we all? But I still agree with you: the WASL = st00p!d.

[yaaaawn] Good night.