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"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Apparently, promotion test is traumatic these kids!
Third-graders tested & tried
Daily News
Told for weeks that their future is on the line, the city's 80,000 third-graders battled their nerves and tackled Mayor Bloomberg's high-stakes reading test yesterday.
Under Bloomberg's tough new promotion policy, third-graders have to pass the standardized reading exam - and next week's math test - in order to move to fourth grade.
"It was easy," said a relieved Gibralter Stevens, 8, as he left Public School 125 in Harlem. "We studied hard, so it wasn't bad."
Tatianna Lawson, 9, said she broke into tears when she got near the end of the test and realized that most of her answers were marked B. "I thought it had to be wrong," she said outside PS 156 in Brownsville, Brooklyn. "I thought I'd failed."
A girl at a Chelsea school got so nervous she threw up during the test,
Andre Cook, 9, of PS 135 in Springfield Gardens, Queens, had an asthma attack in the middle of the test and had to stop. "He just broke down," said his mom, Claire. Andre was featured in Monday's Daily News describing recent nightmares in which a book was chasing him.
When Brooklyn dad Ruddy Mieses, 37, asked his daughter Kilvis, 8, a third-grader at PS 156, what present she wanted for studying so hard for the reading test, she had only one thing in mind: "To pass the math test."
Third-graders tested & tried
Daily News
Told for weeks that their future is on the line, the city's 80,000 third-graders battled their nerves and tackled Mayor Bloomberg's high-stakes reading test yesterday.
Under Bloomberg's tough new promotion policy, third-graders have to pass the standardized reading exam - and next week's math test - in order to move to fourth grade.
"It was easy," said a relieved Gibralter Stevens, 8, as he left Public School 125 in Harlem. "We studied hard, so it wasn't bad."
Tatianna Lawson, 9, said she broke into tears when she got near the end of the test and realized that most of her answers were marked B. "I thought it had to be wrong," she said outside PS 156 in Brownsville, Brooklyn. "I thought I'd failed."
A girl at a Chelsea school got so nervous she threw up during the test,
Andre Cook, 9, of PS 135 in Springfield Gardens, Queens, had an asthma attack in the middle of the test and had to stop. "He just broke down," said his mom, Claire. Andre was featured in Monday's Daily News describing recent nightmares in which a book was chasing him.
When Brooklyn dad Ruddy Mieses, 37, asked his daughter Kilvis, 8, a third-grader at PS 156, what present she wanted for studying so hard for the reading test, she had only one thing in mind: "To pass the math test."
