Woohoo TAKS week..........

If you aren't fired up this week you might as well go home and put your head in the oven, cuz it don't get no better than this. Son of a mother lickas.

Truer words have never been spoken!!!!

God Bless TAKS!

I speak the trufe.

yesss!!!

And away we go.........................I will need to cover this monitor and keyboard because the letters on this computer may in some way help a child with test answers!!!!!!!!!!

Day Two........and it continues!!!!!

Aaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gotta pee

You guy's are toooooooooo funny!

Admin wrote:

I gotta pee

Not sure you are offically allowed to pee today.....gotta check with TAKS officals!!!

you can as long as you have an escort...but the escort has to actually see you pee

...and document, document, document! Musn't have any irregularities!!!

My kids took forever. But, things went a lot quicker today when I let them work in groups,

That's a good idea. I may have to try that tomorrow.

They try to bubble in two names on the answer sheet, but make sure everyone turns in their own answer document, or you have to fill out an irregularity form or something, I didn't really listen during the meeting. They may also use a computer if you have one open in your room or you want to get off of yours and let them use it, but I was busy playing games while they were testing...........This TAKS gig isn't so bad.

Did they feed you too?

Oh.....we had Scooby Snacks today!!! So....I see from your comments that you two will be looking for jobs outside the field of teaching next year!!

Day 4.........will it ever end???

Explain this field of teaching you speak of?

YOU might be a school employee if you believe the playground should be equipped with a Ritalin salt lick.

YOU might be a school employee if you want to slap the next person who says, 'Must be nice to work 8 to 3:30 and have summers off.

YOU might be a school employee if it is difficult to name your own child because there's no name you can come up with that doesn't bring high blood pressure as it is uttered.

YOU might be a school employee if you can tell it's a full moon or if it going to rain, snow, hail....anything!!! Without ever looking outside.

YOU might be a school employee if you believe, 'shallow gene pool'
should have its own box on a report card.

YOU might be a school employee if you believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says, 'Boy, the kids sure are mellow today.'

YOU might be a school employee if when out in public, you feel the urge to snap your fingers at children you do not know and correct their behavior.

YOU might be a school employee if you have no social life between August and June.

YOU might be a school employee if you think people should have a government permit before being allowed to reproduce.

YOU might be a school employee if you wonder how some parents MANAGED to reproduce.

YOU might be a school employee if you laugh uncontrollably when people refer to the staff room as the 'lounge.'

YOU might be a school employee if you encourage an obnoxious parent to check into charter schools or home schooling and are willing to donate the UHAUL boxes should they decided to move out of district.

YOU might be a school employee if you think caffeine should be available in intravenous form.

YOU might be a school employee if you can't imagine how the ACLU could think that covering your students chair with Velcro and then requiring uniforms made out of the corresponding Velcro could ever be misunderstood by the public.

YOU might be a school employee if meeting a child's parent instantly answers this question, 'Why is this kid like this?'

YOU might be a school employee if you would choose a root canal over a parent conference.

YOU might be a school employee if you think someone should invent antibacterial pencils and crayons...and desks and chairs for that matter!

YOU might be a school employee if the words 'I have college debt for this?' has ever come out of your mouth.

YOU might be a school employee if you know how many days, minutes, and seconds are left in the school year!

This came in our email a few days ago......just FYI for next years TAKS!!!
Very important stuff here.......

Severe Weather Testing Protocols

1. Should a severe weather situation occur during
testing, please remain calm. To display any kind of
anxiety would be a testing irregularity and must be
reported.

2. Please do not look out the window to watch for
approaching tornadoes. You must monitor the students at
all times. To do otherwise would be a testing irregularity
and must be reported.

3. Should students notice an approaching tornado and
begin to cry, please make every effort to protect their
testing materials from the flow of tears and sinus
drainage.

4. Should a flying object come through your window
during testing, please make every effort to ensure that it
does not land on a testing booklet or an answer sheet.
Please make sure to soften the landing of the flying
object so that it will not disturb the students while
testing.

5. Should shards of glass from a broken window come
flying into the room, have the students use their bodies
to shield their testing materials so that they will not be
damaged. Have plenty of gauze on hand to ensure that no
one accidentally bleeds on the answer documents. Damaged
answer sheets will not scan properly.

6. Should gale force winds ensue, please have everyone
stuff their test booklets and answer sheets into their
shirts…being very careful not to bend them because bent
answer documents will not scan properly.

7. If any student gets sucked into the vortex of the
funnel cloud, please make sure they mark at least one
answer before departing…and of course make sure they leave
their answer sheets and test booklets behind. You will
have to account for those.

8. Should a funnel cloud pick you, the test
administrator, up and take you flying over the rainbow,
you will still be required to account for all of your
testing materials when you land so please take extra
precautions. Remember, once you have checked them out,
they should never leave your hands.

9. When rescue workers arrive to dig you out of the
rubble, please make sure that they do not, at any time,
look at or handle the testing materials. Once you have
been treated for your injuries, you will still be
responsible for checking your materials back in. Search
dogs will not be allowed to sift through the rubble for
lost tests…unless of course they have been through
standardized test training.

10. Please do not pray should a severe weather situation
arise. Your priority is to actively monitor the test and a
student might mark in the wrong section if you are praying
instead of monitoring. I’m sure God will put war, world
hunger, crime, and the presidential primaries on hold
until after testing is over. He knows how important this
test is.

all my kids scored 100%.