When I was in HS they gave all of the students a mock TAAS (The state test for Texas, which has since changed to the TAKS test) test for reading, math, writting. Well I happened to leave early (due to personal stuff) on the day I had to do the math one. I got called away about 1/4 of the way through my test. My Teacher was an ass and we clashed badly from day one, so he went ahead and submitted my exam, instead of letting me finish it on the make-up day telling me I'd have an "unfair advantage" over the other students (...it was the TAAS test for God's sake - we'd been taking this same test for YEARS).
So needless to say I did very badly on the mock-exam, so the school sent me to TAAS prep classes. I was forced out of class 2 days a week and made to sit in a class w/ all the other students who failed it or didn't take it. How sick is that - when they force students into a prep class because they were afraid of bad scores. I was taken out of class (an elective) where I could actually LEARN something to instead be babysat on how to take the state mandated exam.
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Date: 2007-04-12 02:12 pm (UTC)So needless to say I did very badly on the mock-exam, so the school sent me to TAAS prep classes. I was forced out of class 2 days a week and made to sit in a class w/ all the other students who failed it or didn't take it.
How sick is that - when they force students into a prep class because they were afraid of bad scores. I was taken out of class (an elective) where I could actually LEARN something to instead be babysat on how to take the state mandated exam.