Most teachers and educators (and politicians) were good students, did their best - wanted good grades, tried hard on standardized tests. So as schools & states set up their testing it was often with little thought about how the student is going to react. There was little thought of what a student finds reasonable.
We are entering a period of state mandated testing that borders on insanity in my opinion. We are looking at many days of testing. And I think about myself - I received good grades, but never was accused of being a great student. The instance something did not affect my grade it became non-essential (part of my disdain of education due to my early struggles in reading - another post for another day). So in High School, the Iowa Basic Skills Test became just a fill in the blank exercise - I just filled in B... and stated "I had a premonition that the answer was B." Ironic that now I will be at least partially rated by student test results - where the students have nothing at stake.
Sometimes we need to remember that students are people and unreasonable things are met with the equivalent amount of effort. Perhaps we should inform our lawmakers....
