Let's sing the doom song!
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twincityhackerOkay. Standerdized testing? Die. I can't even come up with a creative way for it to die.
Anyway. Since I live in lovely Jasper, Indiana, we get to pilot all the strange new forms of torture that politions come up with to inflict on students. This is actually a good thing, since it gives the teachers a heads up on what new nasty is comming down the sewge line.
I'm taking the Core 40 testing today in US History and English. The English test yesterday was a horror. Mostly since we take it online, it takes awhile to load. Sometimes it would dive you the answers and not the question for several minutes. Sometimes only the story secton came up and not the questions or the answers. And it tested on Latin root-words! Not really a technical issue, but Latin root words!)
Today I did the best essay I've ever written for a timed piece of crap. It was on Joel Robinson, and probably got lost on the way to Indy because there's some techical glitches on their end. Emphises added by Pricipal.
And the History? My class is starting the cold war. This is the closest in time I've ever gotten in a history course. I'll admit, my teacher goes off on tangets for a whole class period so where two chapters behind the time-on-task teacher. But even she just got done with the Kennedy Assasination. And the latest date on my history test? 1996. With lots of questions about the 1980s. Sure, I lived though it, but I was 8! And I even looked up stuff from the test I didn't know on the test in my history book, and it wasn't in their either (These were some Supreme Court cases and a few other odds and ends.)
Of course, I didn't metion the kicker: If I fail any of these tests (besides the history one) I won't get credit for the class, no matter how high my grade is.
I feel sorry for the children of Indiana. First you haveing to pass Algerbra II to get Core 40, and I'm almost postive they're yanking the Basic diplomia too. I don't since I already have those two requirements (as long as the test I failed today in that class didn't drop me down too much.)
Anyway. Since I live in lovely Jasper, Indiana, we get to pilot all the strange new forms of torture that politions come up with to inflict on students. This is actually a good thing, since it gives the teachers a heads up on what new nasty is comming down the sewge line.
I'm taking the Core 40 testing today in US History and English. The English test yesterday was a horror. Mostly since we take it online, it takes awhile to load. Sometimes it would dive you the answers and not the question for several minutes. Sometimes only the story secton came up and not the questions or the answers. And it tested on Latin root-words! Not really a technical issue, but Latin root words!)
Today I did the best essay I've ever written for a timed piece of crap. It was on Joel Robinson, and probably got lost on the way to Indy because there's some techical glitches on their end. Emphises added by Pricipal.
And the History? My class is starting the cold war. This is the closest in time I've ever gotten in a history course. I'll admit, my teacher goes off on tangets for a whole class period so where two chapters behind the time-on-task teacher. But even she just got done with the Kennedy Assasination. And the latest date on my history test? 1996. With lots of questions about the 1980s. Sure, I lived though it, but I was 8! And I even looked up stuff from the test I didn't know on the test in my history book, and it wasn't in their either (These were some Supreme Court cases and a few other odds and ends.)
Of course, I didn't metion the kicker: If I fail any of these tests (besides the history one) I won't get credit for the class, no matter how high my grade is.
I feel sorry for the children of Indiana. First you haveing to pass Algerbra II to get Core 40, and I'm almost postive they're yanking the Basic diplomia too. I don't since I already have those two requirements (as long as the test I failed today in that class didn't drop me down too much.)
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Date: 2005-05-04 05:20 pm (UTC)I had to withdraw from Algebra II since I was failing it senior year. I ended up taking it as a non-credit course freshman year. Believe it or not, I got a B. The professor knew we were all math dummies, so she made it easy on us.
An article about my old high school recently appeared in the paper. Now they're making you take trig to graduate. Those poor kids!
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Date: 2005-05-07 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-05 04:51 am (UTC)I wouldn't have to worry about Algebra, though. I took it as a sophmore :)
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Date: 2005-05-07 07:03 pm (UTC)But I don't have to take calculus to gradueate, so it all works out in the end.
stupid educational system
Date: 2005-05-06 10:39 pm (UTC)SO really your method would only make me fail one more class. Unless Mrs. P was also teaching a class, then she'd fuck up a third (did I tell you I went from a B to an NC in a matter of about 6 weeks because she sucks at keep records?)
Re: stupid educational system
Date: 2005-05-07 07:07 pm (UTC)Ah, I have a teacher like that. Except people convince her that they had already handed in things that they didn't.