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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 04:25 PM Original message |
Dear Parents: What happens in the testing room? |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. Oh I so remember days like that. |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. It really doesn't sound that bad. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 05:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. It's incredibly stressful for kids |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. It sounds like the standardized testing of my youth in thelate 1970s and 1980s |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I have taught that long and it is very different today |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Ok, but the testing room and procedures sound just like the ones when I was a student. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 07:55 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. In elementary school? |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 07:18 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I honestly don't remember what room we used in elementary school, we may have used the cafeteria |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Back in the late 60's and early 70's.... |
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Ms. Toad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 08:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. It really isn't the room and the test day procedures |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 10:50 AM Response to Reply #16 |
31. that's my memory, too, from the 70s and 80s in NC |
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gkhouston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. In the 70s, I don't remember preparing for the tests, ever. We simply took them. n/t |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Me too. |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 12:11 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. We were prepped for some test, in Baltimore in '75 or '76. |
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Mariana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 08:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. It's not like that anymore. |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 12:16 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I was just taught how important it was to teach testing strategies. |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. SO spot on its not funny |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
4. I thank the friend for the gossip |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
6. wtf is a "testing room"? |
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Riley18 (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
7. Today we retested the 8 year old kids who did not pass the their state test in March. |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. We have to do that too. |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 09:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
26. Stupid question: |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
8. You forgot the part about educators, the principal and any other tester having to sign a |
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hvn_nbr_2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
12. Too bad that security for ballots isn't as strong as for 6th grade test pencils. nt |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. LOL I say that every year when we test |
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AwakeAtLast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
13. Wow. It's like I'm sitting in my 7th Grade class all over again... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-28-09 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. I'd love to put the legislators who dreamed this crap up in exactly the same situation.. |
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OneTenthofOnePercent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 08:59 AM Response to Original message |
25. I always enjoyed the standardized tests |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
27. How often do kids do this in each grade level? |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 10:39 AM Response to Reply #27 |
30. Every grade, every year. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-29-09 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
29. I gave those tests |
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