The torture that is standarized testing is over for now. I celebrated with several margaritas!
Next week the torture process starts for the older kids.
At some point someone needs to realize that we're hurting these kids with all of these test. We're teaching an entire generation to hate school.
When we aren't forced to give them the actual test, we are forced to give them interim tests to predict how they'll do on the actual test. We're so busy testing the kids that we don't have time to actually teach them.
It's sad and scary.