Test security is taken very seriously. Unfortunately, there was a bit of a cheating scandal (understatement) in a school district located in the capital of a southern state which I shall not name (Hint: state begins with the letter “G”) and as a result of this debacle, the ante has been upped in regards to preventing any wrongdoing (i.e. cheating) in regards to THE TEST.
A school district's dream... |
As the number two pencils begin to mark the answer choices
and the administration of THE TEST is underway, you would think things would
calm down. Nope. Au contraire mon frere.
Things are just starting to get interesting, especially in middle school.
Students sometimes have issues (shocker). Take for instance
an incident where a student gets a nosebleed in the middle of taking one of the
subtests. Walkies-talkies will start going crazy and principals shift into high
gear.
Testing Coordinator: No,
the teacher pushed the student out of the way, pulled the document and secured
it immediately. Crisis averted. Student continues to test with tissue up nose
and tissue box on desk. Only slight bruise on arm from push. Noted on testing
log.
Head Principal: Roger
that.
Ok I admit – it’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I won’t admit
it’s THAT far off.
The day of the Math test means kids will be puking all over
the
school. I have held more than one students’ head while they vomit
in a trash can in the hallway. The math anxiety kicks into overdrive and all teachers are on the lookout for pea green faces so they can move the documents out of the way before the student blows his or her cookies. The mantra - SAVE THE TEST DOCUMENTS is the cry on math testing day. Because if the student vomits on the answer document, that answer document has to be placed in a plastic bag and sent to the state. I swear – this is the truth. Wouldn’t you love that job? Being the person at the state office opening up all the plastic bags with puke on bubble sheets? Hazardous work to be sure. Serves them right.
school. I have held more than one students’ head while they vomit
in a trash can in the hallway. The math anxiety kicks into overdrive and all teachers are on the lookout for pea green faces so they can move the documents out of the way before the student blows his or her cookies. The mantra - SAVE THE TEST DOCUMENTS is the cry on math testing day. Because if the student vomits on the answer document, that answer document has to be placed in a plastic bag and sent to the state. I swear – this is the truth. Wouldn’t you love that job? Being the person at the state office opening up all the plastic bags with puke on bubble sheets? Hazardous work to be sure. Serves them right.
Heaven forbid a few students skip a question by mistake and
have to erase all their answers and start over. This will be looked at as
an anomaly and the teacher will be scrutinized in regards to possibly changing
answers to better the results (this actually happened in that southern state
capital that I shall not name – think Coca Cola).
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