Our juniors took the ACT this morning. Reports were that most students worked hard and took the task at hand seriously. This ACT counts toward of school assessment which is a reflection of not only our school but our community. I appreciate most of students digging in a working through the test. It also counts for our students applying for college or tech schools.
However, a few of our students cannot take a 3 hour test. They are not use to concentrating that long on something difficult. Some are not good readers which is a real problem. The ACT is a reading bias test! Others miss school frequently and do not take difficult classes ... all which does not make for a optimistic outcome.
Doing your best regardless of the situation has been lost in some students. I grew up on a farm where you always did you best in every situation ... fencing, building a pole building, hoeing tobacco, baling hay and on and on! Some of students have that attitude but many do not. When presented with a difficult task like the ACT we took today. They give up easily and just bubble in some answers to get it over with. That is unfortunate since our school and our community will be judged by there effort.
I applaud most of the students in my home room that worked with great intensity during each of the four tests ... checking their answers if they finished early and making sure they answered every question. Most of the students in my homeroom were in this category.
I love to teaching ... always something to work on to make better ... just like farming years ago in Ohio. We have some great students at our school and deserve a great education!
We had our Selected Topics class today after the ACT ... students finished and tested their catapults for the championship tomorrow ... shooting full size marshmellows between two tables 12 feet apart into a bucket. They will shoot 10 shots ... 5 points for in the bucket, 3 points for hitting the bucket, two points for the top of the table and one point for any part of the table ... classroom record is 40 points... Chris Medley! We will resume of study of physics with some computer simulations on Thursday.
Softball today was in the gym ... working on signaling, defending the bunt and baserunning. Tomorrow hopefully we can get back on the field. Scrimmage at #4 Owenboro Catholic is Thursday after school at OCHS. JV-F intrasquad scrimmage Saturday morning.
Good weather the rest of the week!!!
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