Steel Magnolia’s blog

My students took their district exams today.  Good side: I only have to give two make up exams and finish grading the papers I already have...(and hold students hostage for another week with nothing to teach)   Bad side:  The scores are abysmal.  This is not an overexaggeration.  The highest score is a 77.  There are approximately 5 scores above 70.  There are a lot of scores that begin with a 3 or 4.  I'm waiting to find out how other schools' scores look.  Regardless, this is not a good sign, since I saw the test and thought it was A. Very difficult, and B. entirely fair.  So now, not only am I a burnt out teacher, apparently, I'm not a very effective one.  We'll see how long I can convince the kids I don't have their grades.  They felt good about the test.  Who knows, after we scale it a million points, maybe we'll come out on top.  (Still not comforting that they missed over 50% of the questions though)