Getting Testy

Kids love bad ideas. They can’t get enough of them. They will spend all summer inside playing video games, they will throw rocks at the girl they like, and they will borrow their dad’s car and try to take the miles off by running it in reverse. However there are some bad ideas that kids just don’t like, for example the WASL.

Nerds aside, no kid likes sitting in their second period class taking a standardized test for hours and hours. The WASL is the statewide test that all students must take, and starting in 2008 pass if they want to graduate.

The state released the latest results and scores are up, except in 8th grade science and 10th grade writing. We would like to point out that 8th grade is way too early to start teaching science.

Even though the kids are getting smarter (at passing tests) those fat cats down in Olympia are still concerned. It seems that although the scores are up many students who are not passing, which could throw a wrench into the whole graduating students thing that SO many schools are hung up with.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson, however, will fight for these students, and yesterday said at a press conference, "We can't afford to let these kids down, to let ourselves down.” Even if it means making the answers to all of the questions A.