Meap Meap!

Yes- it is that wonderful time of year where students in our lovely state prove their teachers worth! MEAPing is abounding- stressed teachers- over-tested students- and haywire administrators unite during this time to truly delve into the inner workings of education. It is by these test scores, after all, we will be able to gauge the best of the best, the elite-- and those who just need to find a new line of work.

Not at my school. Its our "baseline" year. We have no progress to report being a brand new school. it is interesting, however to explain to the kids 5 times how to fill in a bubble. It is also a weird trip from a student desk to mine to find my birthday sheet because one...or two of my 4th grade students do not know their own birthday- so I have to look it up for them.

What an interruption to a daily flow that has really just begun to take on some traction and grip!