Midterm Schmidterm.
Retroactive Edit: I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about here. Don’t worry about it.
What. The. Hell.
As if being in our school didn’t wear me down to the bone enough, now I have these GIANT midterm/finals to worry about. That’s right, the common assessment that can’t decide what kind of test it is.
When I applied to this school, they made a point of saying that there would be NO midterms. That added to our school’s charm.
Yet, as a complication of the NCLB act, now we all *have* to take them. It’s not a standardized test, either. It’s dependent on the particular curriculum, so now I actually have to worry.
But the fact is, this is ridiculous. Our school has a right to waive its responsibility in this case. Our school is a magnet school which only takes top-qualified students and top-qualified teachers. Simply by being involved with this school, one is already WAY above the target demographic for this state mandate.
It’s not fair. The school established this no-midterm routine early on, and now its abandoning and lying to their own students. They could have avoided this, and they just didn’t bother.
I officially call bullshit on our school.
