Sunday was the Kentucky Derby. I did not watch it, but watching the reports about the race on the news made me wonder what exactly the horses thing about it. Do they get a thrill from seeing how fast they can run around the track? Do they want to win? Or do they just wonder why the heck they have to run around in circles?
State testing is sort of like this, I think. Some students seem to sense that there is some kind of competition going on here, and you can tell they take it seriously. There's an energy there. Other children just have a resignation which lets you know that they think that this is sort of a pointless as running around a short track a whole bunch of times.
Either way, we finished "lap two." This concludes both sections of the English Language Arts section of the California Standards Test. It's probably the most tiring for the children. Two days of math testing follow. These tests seem shorter, though they're actually the trickiest.
Homework: All have earned a day off.
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