SOL #10
This post lifts a line from Greg Armamentos. He wrote this most wonderfully expressed lament over PARCC testing.
Before we jam thermometers
into students
to measure
their current temperature,
Before we dig up
the seed we planted
to see if it is growing,
We must set the timer,
But not any timer.
Computers must be off.
Cell phones must be locked up.
No ticks or rings.
No sound but the deep breaths
of our students in the pressure cooker.
The district gives permission, my pretty,
to use the Promethean timer.
Does the great and powerful district know
that the Smart board has no brains of its own,
let alone a heart?
–Margaret Simon
Reflections on the Teche 