Test Time!

If April showers bring May flowers, what does May bring? Pollen and sneezing and sinus headaches as well as runny noses and itchy eyes, yes, but in Virginia May also brings the spring testing season. We begin the season tomorrow with the Degrees of Reading Power test, known more commonly as the DRP. I'm sure the students aren't too thrilled with taking the different standardized tests; I never liked them as a kid. I found things like the Iowa Test of Basic Skills to be mundane and tiring. I find proctoring tests like the DRP to be mundane and tiring. I guess things haven't changed much.