Sitting in a room for over three hours knowing that this is key to the rest of your life is no picnic. Not sure that is what we should be doing to teenagers but that is state law.
The state mandated tests have some reasonable purposes. We will be taking tests of some importance the rest of our lives. Some extremely important and others mildly so. But that is what we did today and will be doing tomorrow.
So the afternoon gets to be a bit much for everyone. The is a tension release and excitement and nervousness and just pent up energy. So the afternoons of these two days are a little on the crazy side. We try to conduct business as usual but that is just a exercise we do.
The students appear to understand the importance of this experience. For some that is totally fightening. School has not been a strong suit and now the stakes include no diploma. For others it is just another day. They understand school and following the directions is not all that difficult.
But this too shall pass and we will be on to Thursday and back to the duties of study and skill building. But those afternoons seem long.
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