75952166

April 28, 2002 on 10:46 pm | In Blogger |

Today sucked. No exceptions. I can’t even get over it. What a sucky day.

Well, it wouldn’t have been so bad—the sun was shining, I got to sleep in, and there would have been promise of going out to lunch and a movie with the parent-types. But NOOO-OOOOO. Because I had to friggin’ study. All day. No joke. I slept in until 10a, took a bath because I was up too late last night to worry about trifles such as hygeine, had lunch/breakfast, and sat down, and started math. I finished math at 2p, then went right in with biology. Now, even if I had finished biology around 3p and then after that finished English at 4p or 5p, I wouldn’t have been so pissy. But, Ms Caples OF COURSE loaded us with all sorts of homework—a Crime and Punishment test tomorrow, a 40 minute essay test about a dumb toad, and some more crud, so I had quite a long haul to go through with English. I would have done some of it yesterday but felt like I deserved a day off. So, I paid for it today.

So given this and yesterday’s semi-nonproductive day, I’d say this weekend was not that much fun. But, that’s okay. Two more weeks…two more weeks and we’ll have senior finals…then hardly another week and we’ll be done….well that cheers me!

Tomorrow is the AIMS [Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards---how bureacratic can you get?] test. Did I tell you out-of-staters what that sucker is? Some of you who have heard this rant know what AIMS is. It’s this test that the grand state of Arizona is trying to initialize in which high schoolers must pass it to graduate. But the joke is, although the math and English levels do not exceed middle school level in my opinion, no student can pass it. Well, it has an 80 percent failure rate. Lots of contraversy. Because the failure rate of the AIMS test shows how dumb this state is.

Honestly, as someone who took it freshman year, passed, and since then has been stuck sitting in a little room every time the rest of the school goes out to take the AIMS test, I am sick and tired of this contraversy. The thing is not hard to pass; if anything, it’s an idiot’s test. For example, on page 8 it asks you to draw a cylinder. Then around page 34 it has a picture of a cylinder drawn out, and the instructions say, “This is a cylinder!” hur hur hur. On top of that, I find it a waste of school money, of classtime, and of student’s time. Because, as Richard Atkinson of the UC system pointed out about the SAT’s, what does a stupid test know about academics? About education? Education is not when a bunch of bureacrats from a higher authority look down from their pedestals and tell teachers they have to step back a few years before moving on. Education is about exchanging ideas and enriching both the student’s and teacher’s minds in the process~