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"Open letter to my students" by Jessica Lifshitz. What does this mean?
Posted on 3/5/15 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 3/5/15 at 3:56 pm
To all of my precious students,
I am sorry for what I am about to do to you.
This week, I am going to have to give you a new test. It's called PARCC. There will be five separate tests, on four separate days, and my guess is that most of you will hate them. My guess is that one or two of you will be brought to tears because they will make you feel like you are not smart enough. My guess is that several of you will give up part way through the test and just start clicking around on the screen. My guess is that some of you will look around at the students sitting next to you to try and figure out if they are also as confused as you are in the hopes of knowing that you are not the only way feeling this way. My guess is that more than a handful of you will, at some time during the test, ask me to come over and help you with something and I will not be able to.
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I am sorry for what I am about to do to you.
This week, I am going to have to give you a new test. It's called PARCC. There will be five separate tests, on four separate days, and my guess is that most of you will hate them. My guess is that one or two of you will be brought to tears because they will make you feel like you are not smart enough. My guess is that several of you will give up part way through the test and just start clicking around on the screen. My guess is that some of you will look around at the students sitting next to you to try and figure out if they are also as confused as you are in the hopes of knowing that you are not the only way feeling this way. My guess is that more than a handful of you will, at some time during the test, ask me to come over and help you with something and I will not be able to.
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Posted on 3/5/15 at 3:58 pm to LSU1NSEC
God.....reading that letter is more torture than the damn test probably.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 3:58 pm to LSU1NSEC
Common Core rabble rabble rabble
Posted on 3/5/15 at 3:58 pm to LSU1NSEC
Letting her students know that they are all idiots and they should revel in their stupidity. Because life should be fair and this test is not fair.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 3:59 pm to LSU1NSEC
Is her last name really Lifshitz??
Posted on 3/5/15 at 3:59 pm to LSU1NSEC
Jessica sure does guess a lot
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:00 pm to LSU1NSEC
Teachers are so out of touch with reality and the real world.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:01 pm to DeathValley85
I am just glad I made it through that awful letter. I'd take the test 10 times before I would read it again
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:01 pm to LSU1NSEC
Without knowing more, this letter kind of pisses me off. Sounds like a whiny, enabling, coddling poor excuse for a teacher. Granted I don't know the context here so I could be way off base.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:02 pm to LSU1NSEC
quote:the horror......giving a test to kids....who actually go to school to learn. What kind of torture will they come up with next....actually having to run during PE class?
I am going to have to give you a new test.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:02 pm to LSU1NSEC
Pics of teacher
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:02 pm to LSU1NSEC
This teacher is what's wrong with this country. She could have said something inspirational and tell the kids to knuckle down and give it hell, but she chose the pussy route. This is why those who can't do, teach.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:03 pm to dante
wish my 5th grade teachers would have been that nice. they'd beat your arse with a ruler before the test just to wake you up
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:03 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
quote:
Is her last name really Lifshitz??
Comes from a long line of sanitary workers.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:03 pm to LSU1NSEC
Teachers are so fricking self loathing...
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:04 pm to LSU1NSEC
That was the most annoying thing I have read in a long time.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:05 pm to LSU1NSEC
Maybe I'm the minority, but i never had problems on the standardized tests they gave out in school.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:09 pm to LSU1NSEC
It's close...
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:11 pm to LSU1NSEC
Maybe she should spend more time teaching and less time writing for Huffpo and then her students would be prepared.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:21 pm to swamplynx
quote:
Maybe I'm the minority, but i never had problems on the standardized tests they gave out in school.
Me neither. I always did really well. And always finished each section early, which was awesome in high school where you got some absurd amount of time (like 3 hours) per section. And they were required to give you that much time even if everyone was finished.
I would finish in 1 hour and then take a 2-hour snooze until it was time for the next section.
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