This post was a comment by Massachusetts teacher Jim Scanlan:
My school (Taunton High School, Taunton, MA) actually had a situation two years ago during state MCAS testing that required an evacuation. In that spirit, I sent out the following instructions to a few folks. Bureaucracy uber alles! –Jim Scanlan
FIRE DRILL INSTRUCTIONS DURING TESTING
If there are actual flames due to a “Conflagration Circumstance,” (hereinafter, “CC”), please follow the directions listed below:
1) Make sure that test booklets burn first during CC, BEFORE answer booklets. Failure to ensure may compromise the integrity of the test. Ideally, booklets will be consumed from bottom to top.
2) Make sure that all materials to be incinerated during CC have been alphabetized, to maintain test integrity. If Administrator dies during CC, alphabetization responsibility will fall to building Principal and/or His/Her appointed representative. The Representative will, ideally, know the alphabet. If not, please submit Waiver Form 65.3, sub-sections 3/789, sub-heading, “Illiterates, Responsibilities Thereof.”
3) Students should be consumed by CC in alphabetical order.
4) While dying during CC, neither students nor Test Administrator should talk, weep, moan, or otherwise communicate with non-testers. Doing so may invalidate their dying.
5) Following CC, Guidance will collect pencil shards/(alphabetized) bone fragments, and escort and survivors to the appropriate hospital. Upon arrival, Guidance will cover all signage to prevent unlawful surviving/cheating.
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Everyone should note there will be a National Conference on Student Assessment in San Diego at the Grand Hyatt June 22-24. It will be a great opportunity to demand revisions to the test.
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“It will be a great opportunity to demand revisions to the test.”
There is no sense to demand “revisions to the test”.
The tests (and any future iterations) need to be completely scrapped and hopefully they would be lost in a CC event.
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And to which test? SBAC? PARCC? The AIR ones done for several other states (including mine)?
On an interesting note, students in Utah are getting raw scores from their tests almost immediately this year. The writing scores, however, have yet to come back from February. Not that this makes it any better, but it is interesting.
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I recall vividly that high stakes tests were being given on September 11 as the World Trade Towers were coming down. The administrator in charge continued the tests as if that tragedy was an unimportant event. Lost in my files are other notes on that report. I believe this happened in Indiana. This post reminded me of that news report.
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While in a school years ago, we were called into the auditorium and told there was a bomb threat. The administrator said students were being evacuated and teachers are to return to their classrooms and look for suspicious packages.
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About six years ago my students were in the middle of our Massachusetts state tests (MCAS) when the fire alarm sounded. I knew that I was supposed to “secure the test booklets and answer sheets and place them in a secure location” before evacuating the kids, but common sense prevailed, and I told the kids to leave everything on their desks. I was proud and impressed when I found out that every one of my 40 plus colleagues did the same thing!
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Did the administration dare to reprimand you and your colleagues? What idiocy!
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No, no! Admin was fabulous! We all agreed that logic and sense had to rule the day!
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