standardized testing is stupid: change my mind

recently, my state decided to administer testing to determine public school funding. and it was literally hell on earth.

standardized testing is horrible, because its a horrible test of a person's intelligence in general. i have friends who are geniuses but struggle to complete standardized tests because the way the questions are phrased is quite stupid.

but these? were by far the worst.

we had to sit in classrooms in neat rows for hours on end, bubbling in the stupid test booklet bubbles, reading through all the questions. we had to write our name on any scrap paper we used, our test booklets, and we had to turn it all in.

a lot of the kids were constantly stressed out because in addition to all this state testing we're getting closer to finals and missing class to finish the test was a loose-loose situation: if you rushed the test your test scores were lower and that can affect your school's funding, or you could miss classes that were covering the topics in the finals that are coming up.

oh my god, im so tired.

until next time.



c

allergies? or just life

i keep sneezing in school, almost constantly, its annoying.


i really should be studying for math right now. bye guys.


until next time



c

life as i see it pt 2

the world is pretty before everyone wakes up.


if you've ever happened to be awake at around 5:30 in spring, the birds are all awake, singing to each other. it's not really cold, i suppose, despite the temps hovering around the 40s here in the mornings. It's more of just being, a nice sort of balance between warm and cold.


the dew on the grass is quite annoying, however, because when i take the dogs out they run all around in the grass and it completely soaks their paws, which i have to wipe off when i take the dogs inside. but it's pretty, and it's a peaceful sort of time for me. because after comes 8 hours of torture at school.


until next time.



c

life as i see it

life is profoundly short.

how i've come to this realization? i've been avoiding my life up to this point, if that makes any sense. i've been places and done things, yes, but i haven't fully realized i'm living yet. it's a shock to wake up and really see that i've been missing out on people and things.

i've finally realized i had fake friends. it took a long time and several bouts of drama that i wish i never had to go through. kids, especially, have a way of figuring out the weaknesses of others. they have a language adults slowly forget as they grow old. most adults never really seem to listen. they love to talk and be heard, they love to feel important. kids, however, have been taught to avoid talking in the presence of more intimidating people, particularly adults.

kids have a way of listening to people's body language as well as their words. which is how kids can sense better if they've really hurt someone. and they are better at figuring out the weaknesses of others.

some people, however, are simply the opposite of this. some people are so sensitive they hesitate to open their mouths in fear of hurting someone. they can't let their views be opposed lest they feel invalidated, sometimes rightly.

life's really too short for me to care what anyone thinks. but, for some reason, i do.

until next time

c