NJASK

NJASK testing started today. It's standardized testing for New Jersey. It stands for New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge.

I always wondered if they did that on purpose. Make it so that the acronym is "ask." I mean, it's not uncommon for and or of to be left out of acronyms, but somehow it seems like a bit of a stretch. IT'S A CONSPIRACY! A CONSPIRACY I SAY! No, get out of here, Rebellious Grace. But still...

Also, I crack up when they have those pages in the middle where it says in big letters "This page has intentionally left blank."  I mean, it's not blank now, is it?

Testing is so annoying. We arrive in school. We take a 2 hour test, with 5 minute breaks after every section (basically every 40-50 minutes). Since it's probably illegal to talk about what's in the test, I'll just say it was a Language Arts part today, with two reading comprehensions and a persuasive essay.

It's king of funny, though. Since our schedule is all messed up (Our periods go something like 1, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6, 7, 8) we actually have lunch at a NORMAL lunch time. Usually it's at 11:15, but today it was a whole hour later. Wow!

And it's not like the teachers cut us slack anyway. Sure our periods are 25 minutes, but that's enough time for us to learn. The only teacher who let us do anything fun was our math teacher, Mrs.Dostie. We played an online game on graphing. Save the Zogs!

Another thing to look forward to: They're making really weird schedules for Thursday and Friday. You know the four Core subjects (Social Studies, Science, Math, and English)? Well, now you do. Instead of just having shortened periods, on Thursday, we're going to have two of them, and on Friday, we'll have the other two. But here's the thing: The reason we're spreading them out over two days is that they're going to be AN HOUR AND FORTY MINUTES EACH!!! What the h-e-double-hockey-sticks?!?!?!?!? I can't even comprehend taking the Math testing and then spending two hours in math!!! GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

And now, just because babies are awesome:

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