May 18, 2004
Edukashun
You may recall that one of my sons got a certificate for just turning up to school. Well the other one, Ryan, has just finished his SATs test at age 11. He's been tutored for a couple of years and he's probably moderately bright so he found the tests quite easy. In fact, as they get play time and fun things to do afterwards and no homework he declared that he prefers test weeks to normal school weeks.
SATs are stressful for the children and teachers, and perhaps a little for the parents, and the well intentioned teachers decided to present a certificate to all children who took the test. Personally I think this is over the top. However, what I think is disgraceful is the spelling! In 12 words they managed to spell one of them wrong (and i's in the title!) and also stick an erroneous apostrophe in. They did this before with a first aid certificate.
