"We're very very busy and we've got a lot to do,

and we haven't got a minute to explain it all to you, for on Sunday Monday Tuesday there are people we must see, and on Wednesday Thursday Friday we're as busy as can be, with our most important meetings and our most important calls, and we have to do so many things and post them on the walls"

Our annual testing was this week, which meant that we were gone all morning and early afternoon, and doing party prep and chores for the rest. However, we had to postpone the party, so I have a little time to blog today.

I still don't understand some of my tests. Why are tenth-graders only required in geography to name the countries you would pass through if you followed a straight line from Paris to Moscow? Especially since because it is a multiple choice test, the answers were A) Germany and Poland; B) Italy and Greece; C) Saudi Arabia and India; D) Brazil and Argentina)? Surely they should be past that, surely. They should know that Paris and Moscow are in a completely different hemisphere than Brazil and Argentina, shouldn't they?

And as for science, one of the questions was this (paraphrase):

"A fly gets caught in the web of a spider. What part of the spider's life cycle is this:

A) Reproduction
B) Defending itself
C) Gathering food
D) Building a home"

Do they really anticipate that some tenth graders might answer A? That's sad if they do.

A sample math question is :
"3N - N = 6
N="

And as for vocabulary...well, I won't go there. Altogether a sobering, and easy, look into what public schools expect their highschoolers to know.