blogvid

yesterday i took 8 hours of standardized testing. I still have 4 more to go to get certified in new york state, assuming i passed the two i took yesterday. i am very confident that i passed the first one the LAST, yes teachers have to take a test called "LAST." someone told me this test was like "easy SATs" and they were half right- it was fuckign easy, but nothing like the SAT's. LAST actually stands for Liberal Arts and Sciences Test. There were questions about art, math, history, dance, and so on. luckily very few required any outside knowledge. in fact there was a question about surrealism where the correct answer according to the passage about it was not the best answer according to real life. my friend, Dora, couldn't not put the real world answer even though the passage said nothign about that. anyways, moving on... the 2nd test i took was the ATS-W, which tests things like you have kid with a wheelchair in your class, what is hte most appropriate step to take... and ... you are having a parent teacher conference with a parent you ahve heard is crazy, should you have them commited... and so on. so someone (the TC faculty) said not to worry about this test. its easy. TC prepares you for it. sha right. now i still think i passed beacuse most multiple choice standardized tests can be taken as logis tests and half of the answer choices can be eliminated immeadeatly. so i think i passed, but i was never sure about any answer i chose. so the test is given in the Javitz Center- new york's convention center. they wrangle a thousand would-be teachers into a giant room that is used to housing all those infomercial products they always have at conventions. speaking of which ComiCon was going on while we were taking the tests- not in the room, of course, but in the convention center. coolest cotume by far was a very accurate ghost buster. the lampiest was this girl dressed as sailor moon or some other character liek her. so before the test began you were supposed to check you cell phone downstairs since they were not allowed in the testing room. the proctor and (oh man i jsut laid a smelly ass fart) all his minions siad this a bajillion times. they also warned us about 30 times that for the first part of the test the bathrooms would be closed to ensure that everyone heard the directions. so hes telling us we are going to start soon and he's like ,"ok charlie, close the bathrooms" and BAM 20 people get up to go to the bathroom. have i ever mentioned that I HATE PEOPLE?!?!?! jebus frackin chirs man. at this moment i couldn't help but think of the NYPD aka "New York's Finest." now you amy be able to argue one way or other about just how fine the NYPD is, but goddammit this was a room fulll of teachers- the people that are going to teach your stupid kids, help them be useful members of society- and they can/'t follow and directions. im pretty sure we could not argue whether or not the people in that giant room were "NY's finest" because they are clearly not. which is sad. "come to our schools, taught by New York's Mediocre!!! We WON'T stick a plunger up your butt!"