8: 00am Sunday.
MCAS Science and Technology Grade 5; all fields.
Last names: Sanchez, Hernandez, Fernandez, Vazquez,
Nguyen. Georgesuper.
First names: Promise, Li, Jaethan, Saab.
Upper and lower case,
Sophia or Sophla?
Erasure marks, sticky notes,
Dark scans that pick up dust, children
Who lack fine motor skills:
Writing in 'Ashley, '
The scanner readS 'A**XYR.'
Three of us standing around a monitor, musing,
Deciphering, hypothesizing.
15 min break at 10: 00am
Student Id, Student Labels: 6's bending into 9's,
8's blurring into 3's,
108403869251.
NO_VALUE_RECOGNIZED
70,000 faulty eighth grade bar codes
To be typed in by hand.
30 minute lunch at 12: 00pm
ScanEdit Station.
NECAP Math Grade 8:
Bubble. Bubble.
Circled. X-ed out.
Outlined. Check marked.
Bubble.Bubble.
15 min break at 2: 00pm.
Bubble.
Asterisk means more than one response;
Is A lighter than B? How much lighter?
Let's say the kid just has a very dark pencil,
Erased A, and meant B.
Light scans are a Where's Waldo game of find the circle
That is slightly darker than the other circles.
Write-in questions brighten the monotony:
How many apples does Jan have and how do you know?
'I don't understand the question.'
'Four. Because seven minus three is four.'
'-drawing of a robot-'
' Five. 'Cause it's the answer.'
'I hate you! '
Log out 4: 00pm, with the option of staying until 6: 00pm
One Monday they tell us there is no more work and we
Hand in our plastic badges on colored lanyards,
Push in our chairs,
Go.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem