Day 33 - FCAT ridiculousness

Today was an FCAT day for 9th and 10th grade (as is tomorrow) so the 11th and 12th graders needed to be off campus from 8:30 until just after noon. Instead of just telling them to not come to school until noon, administration decided that the students needed to go to school and be "productive" for three and a half hours. The catch though, was that they couldn't be on campus during the test. How does this work, you ask? Well, the 12th graders arranged to spend one day volunteering and another day doing a field trip or something. 11th grade was not so lucky. They are lucky enough, however, to be within walking distance of UF's College of Education, so I spent the morning at my other home away from home watching Iron Jawed Angels and grading papers. It was a pretty easy day and I even got to go home early, but it was so painfully unproductive that it's aggravating. Oh well, tomorrow is more of the same so I guess I just have to deal with it. Thank you, No Child Left Behind and standardized testing.