Alright, boys and girls, time for a standardized test.
Sharpen your #2 pencils.
There is a time limit. There will be no accommodations for those with disabilities.
If you do well, your teacher gets a bonus.
If you fail, your teacher will be fired and your school will be closed.
Good luck!
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Awesome.
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Leave your number 2 pencil at home; “MAP” testing began for ALL students, no matter their disabilities, ON COMPUTER, blind students and Severe and Profound students were not exempted. (they are now, finally, but that’s another story). And our performance evaluation is being tied to performance on this ENTIRELY computer-based test. I have heard some horror stories of high school students purposely skewing their test so that their teachers get fired… We are all crying every Sunday night. It’s truly, truly awful.
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Could they pass that test and would they like the surgery before being put out? I think they should try it since they want us to accept that. Maybe they should prove it works first. Can I watch? It reminds me of surgery in Germany about 1900. They would strap them down and go for it without anything to take away the pain. Let them try it.
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I think all “top down” staff development should come with an open bar.
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The problem with that is that they’d only stock it with Kool-Aid!
(and not the electric kind!)
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I wish that this were a laughing matter
but
maybe it is better to laugh than cry.
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