Matt Damon's speech to teachers

[33girl]

I completely agree with him about standardized testing. Drilling, practicing, hell, even telling the kids in advance that they're going to take them defeats the whole purpose of these tests and can greatly mess up the result!

We had standardized tests too, but with none of this present-day garbage. We literally came in as for any other school day and were told "we're going to take standardized tests today." Period. No time to get worried about them or flustered or think too hard about how we SHOULD approach them. They might have told us a day or two in advance once we got to jr & sr high, just because of athletics/activities and such, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had not.