Standardized Test Day #2: A(n Attempted) Poem"You may begin."
Flip! Bodies bent over booklets,
brains buzzing with a bombardment of prepubescent preoccupations.
I hope they remember the strategies.
Zip! A #2 underlines an important idea or word.
Yes!
Fifty-five minutes left.
Slowly, silently, scan the students.
Take a lap up and down the aisles.
Any apparent bubble artists out there?
"Achoo!" A case of the sniffles couldn't keep
these kiddos away on the big test day.
I should've...
I could've...
Fifty-four minutes left....
2 comments:
That was great use of the poetic form to capture the essence of testing from a teacher's point of view.
Oh dear, too much testing. Poor students, poor teachers. Wouldn't we all better off writing slices of life instead?
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