This week, some students in Texas public schools took the TAKS test, standardized tests to see if they've learned what they're supposed to. My daughter is in the fourth grade and took the math and reading tests. Back when I was going to school, there weren't TAKS tests. We studied, we did homework and we took tests. If we did bad on a test, we studied harder for the next test so we could bring up our grades. In high school, we took "final exams," which were big tests at the end of the year, and it might have been a little stressful but it was nothing like it is today. "The TAKS test" hangs over the kids' heads all year long, with everything they do teaching them how to take and pass the test. What was school like when you were a kid? Write a letter and tell someone about one of your school experiences.
Letter writing topic for April 29, 2010
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