Kids these days got it easy [Teaching/Blog]

Kids these days got it easy….

Kids these days got it easy.  No, this is not a case of the walking-to-school-both-ways-are-uphill-thing, but rather a back-in-the-day thing.  Back in the day, when I was a kid, June was my version of T.S. Elliot’s opening to the wasteland.  June was in fact the cruelest month of the year.  Beyond the heat, and the impending loss of friends that I had come to know and had been excited to see on a daily basis there were the Regents exams.  Doom Doom Doom.

Final exams.  Proving that there was a reason my parents didn’t have me at some farm doing a real life Farmville.  Impending finals, where in those rooms only you and your number 2 pencil were allowed.  Sweat beads.  Time.  Oh gawd did I answer all the questions?

But at the end of the day, there was summer!   So it fills me with sadness to hear that to save money, well, the State Education Board will be cutting exams to save money.

Here’s a link [RIP SOME FINAL EXAMS].  More and more, it seems like one day, all children will be taught equally in a large field by a monkey certified in bananas.  People who want to teach will be actually be forced into teaching large auditorium-sized Special Education classes.

[Chester Kent]

6-19-10

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