The Wrong Test

It is once again testing time. I was a bit nervous as to how things would go, especially since I had been around for the fiasco six months ago. (See yesterday's post for more about that.) But things went surprisingly smoothly. 

Day one went off well. I had a couple issues of students getting stuck on the loading screen of doom, but from the last time, I knew that the solution was to reload the test for them. Annoying, but effective. 

Then Monday night I got an email from the assistant principal who's in charge of the testing. 

So as to not overburden any one department, they had three departments administer the testing. The English teachers administered the language test, the math teachers administered the math test, and the history teachers administered the reading test. But because the ninth graders take geography or health (each is a semester course), the health teachers were also administering the reading test. 

The email from the assistant principal was a forward from one of the health teachers. Mr. C had emailed Ms. A, but as she's on maternity leave, she's not checking her email. But Mr. C brilliantly cc'ed the assistant principal, and he knew to forward it to me. 

Mr. C gave his freshmen the wrong test. He gave them the language test. Oops. 

So, that meant I had to give the students he had already tested the reading test. 

It was only two students, and switching the test was actually pretty simple. I doubt the class really caught that two of them were taking a different test. 

Minor problems. It was so nice to have a testing go on with only minor problems.