more sketches

This week is statewide Benchmark testing (to make sure the schools qualify for the funding they get for NCLB). My kids report that they aren't allowed to bring a book, paper to draw on, or anything else to the test. So when they are done and no one else is, they just get to SIT there for the rest of the time. Things have changed for the worse since I took standardized tests. I remember drawing, reading Helen Keller's biography, and signing to my friend across the room.

This is how it makes my kids feel: