VIEW
FROM AN URBAN TESTING ROOM
By Terry
Preuss, NBCT, Career Public Educator, Badass Teacher & Author: Voices in the Hall
These
are Important Standardized Tests...
All quiet!
All
sitting!
All still!
One
scratches his head...
One closes
her eyes.
I tap her
gently and say, "Please stay awake,
this is an important test."
She looks
at me with eyes so fierce, they tell me that the night she went through, and
the morning she is trying to forget make the presumed "importance" of this test simply ridiculous to her...
Important?
You think this is "important?"
Tell my mother to stop stealing the
ADD medications I need to be able to focus.
She sells them when she is too
short on money to buy her cigarettes.
And tell her "man" to stop
coming in my bed...
Maybe then I can get some real
sleep!
You say this is "important?"
Look at your smug self in your
beige suit, and your blue jacket, and your closed toes shoes.
Look at you!
You don't know the meaning of the
word "important."
Then she
picked up the pencil, clinching her fist and stared at the test to appease me.
And, I
walked on to the next victim...
of the "Important standardized test"
starting to fall asleep in his seat.
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