Testing Week Prizes

This week was High Stakes Testing Week at Cayden's school. This is the state tests that show if our kids are learning anything.   In an effort to get the kids to work hard and do their best they give out tickets at the end of the testing each day and the kids can win prizes.  Cayden won a frisbee one day and this lovely silly string another day.  He was busting a gut to spray that stuff when he got home and barely made it outside to do!  He thought it would be funny to spray me-I didn't think so and luckily he chose wisely and did not spray me!  I proctored one of the days up at the school.  Basically I sit in a classroom for an hour and half and play on my phone or read a book while the class takes the test.  This is to ensure there is no cheating.  I find it interesting that they give all the kids in all the classes a granola bar and maybe a juice box before the testing begins.  I asked a teacher once why they do that and they said that the granola bar may be the only the child had to eat that day and so they provide it to everyone just in case and because the kids to better with something in their stomachs.  A little sugar rush probably doesn't hurt either.  It is hard to imagine that a child would go to school with out breakfast.  My kids would mutiny!  It is also hard for me to imagine that a child would not have food to eat!  I hope that is never the case with my children!  I'm glad that the school does that even if it is just one kid that needs it.  Public education isn't all bad.