We're having standardized testing this week. I had to give the Language Arts section to 5 fourth graders today. Peeps with some learning difficulties. It was a drag for all of us. One kiddo got so mad at me. He kept mumbling and grouching at me as I tried to help him read the inscrutable passages. "I don't know how to read this and I've told you that!" He knew there was no point in him taking that test and he did NOT want to fill in bubbles to questions he could neither read nor answer. But that's what I encouraged him to do. I hated myself for that. Literacy sucks sometimes.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The Testing
We're having standardized testing this week. I had to give the Language Arts section to 5 fourth graders today. Peeps with some learning difficulties. It was a drag for all of us. One kiddo got so mad at me. He kept mumbling and grouching at me as I tried to help him read the inscrutable passages. "I don't know how to read this and I've told you that!" He knew there was no point in him taking that test and he did NOT want to fill in bubbles to questions he could neither read nor answer. But that's what I encouraged him to do. I hated myself for that. Literacy sucks sometimes.
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