So, ever since I was in seventh grade, I would be tortured with the sight of high schoolers getting a week off two times a year. It is due to a special set of tests given throughout New York State. These Regents, as they’re referred to, aren’t really given to most junior high kids, so they still have to go to school. It wouldn’t be that bad if we didn’t have to see more than half the school gone.
If you’re in high school, you either have one test or you don’t. But either way, you get the week off. I have the Math A Regents on Thursday. I have to take a mock Regents tomorrow, for which I need to stay in school for periods 1 through 3. It’s the same schedule on Wednesday but I’m just getting the mock’s results back and reviewing the answers. The day of the test, I have to go to the school by about noon and they hold you for like 2 hours, even though you get 3 hours to take the test, I think.
I even get Monday off since it’s the last day of the term. Yay! Take this all you kids from other states who get their summer, spring, and winter vacations before us NYC kids!
Regents are the reason why I appreciate private schools and not public ones. I mean it’s hard to study for regents ’cause it’s hard to tell what’ll be on’em but we have mid-terms and we’re told exactly what chapters our exam will be on and that stuff.
I heard of that Concert for Bangladesh thing in an issue of Rolling Stone.
Well, that’s true. But there’s one thing I noticed about the Math A regents since I had to take like a whole lot of old ones as practice. They get pretty repetetive with the topics. Oh, and, can you stop with the sadssdfdsfs@fkfssfjg.com thing? WordPress keeps marking your comments as spam.
We may not have had Regents, but we did have these SOL tests for a lot of our classes in high school. Glad I don’t have to deal with those anymore.
Man that sounds really nice; I’m at school right now in fourth period. So bored.
P.S. I’m lookin over at that kid who looks just like you; it’s crazy I tells ya!
I think it’s the whole “someone just like you on the other side of the world” thing gone wrong.
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Hey, Salwa.