Question: is there life after boards?
Answer: Yes indeed there is, although it is an “altered” existence. It is the existence of an altered Universe that requires bubble test sheets and #2 pencils for all answers!
Last night my daughter and I went out to dinner to celebrate Spring’s arrival with a bunch of folks. It was a nice diversion not usually taken during finals week (for me anyway). Oddly enough I found myself searching for the name tag that dictated where we were to sit. And then my mind searched for I.D. #, booklet #, pencil and paper. Ah, it’s true!
After 660 questions in two days and 6 computerized testing sheets - all I could see were little circles to color. And of course with finals we have even more little circles to color in. A pity we can’t use colored pencils, hmmmm. I can now claim to be an undisputed pro at standardized testing! Not something an ex-Montessori teacher likes to admit striving toward (geek joke lol!).
Seriously now: it will be a few days after finals before we test takers can return to the Normal Universe. It will take some time to find just the right wormhole. After all, we don’t want to arrive back at the beginning of Boards…rather at the beginning of Spring Break ! YA!
