Horrors Ameliorated by Pleasures

[aredsand]

    Oh, the horrors of it. High-stakes testing is upon us. I am administering it to 18 students, and it turns me into a person I don’t recognize. From someone who knows that grading a school’s success by comparing the scores of a different group of 11th graders each year is sheer idiocy, I go to a promoter of the test. Moreover, this 14-hour

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[dragonwrites]

6 days and 14 hours???!!! wth? give them the psats and be done with it! at least it prepares them for the real world, where everything is awful and pointless and unreasonable :P hopefully, all this changes, SOON! you know, so kids can spend more time learning and less time filling in little bubbles and making their marks dark.

that hot springs sounds awesome, though.

I knew you'd understand

[aredsand]

Unfortunately, we HAVE to do this or get shut down. NCLB and all that. It's insane. I try to put as positive a spin on it as I can. Like, it's practice for the ACT or SAT, yada yada.

[amanderpanderer]

I'm glad you have some way to detox the testing days. What a horrible pain for you and the students.

[aredsand]

You could not be righter.