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The bell hadn’t even rung to begin class yet, but Ce Ce already had enough.
She saw the pile of standardized test look-a-like sheets on the front desk and immediately asked if she could go to in-school suspension.
I’m not kidding.
She’d prefer to spend the day in silence doing homework isolated from the rest of the class than practicing high stakes testing with her peers.
And she’s not alone. This happens every year now. As assessment season gets closer, administrators push teachers to do test prep. And students revolt.
I’m not exactly sure why. Test replicas are not my favorite things to do, either, but they’re not THAT bad. I don’t think it can be my teaching since the mutiny usually happens before I’ve even begun.
It’s the testing. Pure and simple. Some students are so demoralized by the very prospect of skill-and-drill that spending one more second…
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