Day 2 of Hell

I don't have much else to add to Wednesday's blog, except for the fact that I almost fell asleep about twenty times. I wanted to give up administering the test because I couldn't stand it anymore. It was hard to keep the kids quiet, hard to stay quiet myself and even harder to keep the kids somewhat quiet while trying to find a comfortable sleeping position in their seats. I've never seen a desk slept on so many different ways. I wish I could have taken pictures...they found comfort in the oddest ways.

In the midst of their boredom, they all tried wrapping their jackets/hoodies around their heads in order to have a pillow and darkness to sleep. I've never seen hoodies wrapped around a head so many different ways either.

While I was watching them all try to make themselves comfortable, I flashed back to when I took the TAAS test in junior high and high school. I remember in junior high I had a teacher who brought me red and pink Starbursts to keep me awake during the test. This was while I was sitting in my desk with both legs on the desk and the test in the middle. I was a mover who couldn't sit the same way for more than five minutes and had a hard time staying awake. Even in high school I remember falling asleep during the reading test because sleeping was definitely more exciting. I tried conveying my empathy for my kiddos and explain that watching them take the test was definitely worse than taking it myself. If I had been able to take it, at least I would have been able to do something.

Have any of the old men who developed these tests and regulations ever administered one? That should be a requirement before they can make a state mandated test. Seriously...how well would they hold up? I know I didn't and fell asleep at 7:30 after the second day of this extreme boredom. I'm much better off being actively engaged in teaching all day than I am walking around actively monitoring.