That is normal teaching strategy...Teach them the important stuff first while they are thinking about it and before they get comfortable and start slacking. So they really aint missing much except their friends.
Most of the teachers I work with completed all their standards two weeks ago-the week we stopped going to school. We were scheduled out this week for spring break. We were to come back and take our state diagnostic assessments the third week of April. These assessments are the ones that schools are held accountable for with state accountability. So basically we aren't missing anything except the testing. Once we test, it's all over with anyway. We just babysit until the last day.
I spent three weeks last year working for DRC (Diagnostic Research Corporation) creating the state assessment for third and fourth grade with 12 other Alabama teachers. I had to sign sworn confidentiality statements that state I won't reveal what our state test is and isn't. Our students were ready to test and I hate we aren't testing. The test was the best I have ever seen because it actually tests students on what they are covering in their state standards. The common core crap has been thrown away and a user friendly test was created for us, by us.
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