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Me, I’m pretty bored.
Day: June 5, 2002
And to think, if I was at the University of California, Berkeley, I could be getting college credit for this. Found, like so much else, through Boing Boing.
I am, according to NPR’s “Which Newsmaker are You” quiz, a Generic Talking Head. Well that’s a fine how-do-ya-do.
In today’s Salon, Amy Weivoda writes:
We all understood that the kids behind the tests were real, and we never intentionally tried to screw them. But discomfort, resentment and tedium no doubt caused our minds to wander and our scores to get sloppy. Subtle pressure from our co-workers, or open pressure from our managers, caused us to rush through the tests. We were underpaid and poorly trained and none of us was qualified to be scoring those kids.
Great. Like I needed more reason to be pissed off at standardized tests.