Tell Those Kids to Shut Up

I have to keep repeating to myself that there are now less than two weeks left of school.  Poor Rachel got her math test back today.  She didn't do well, but she didn't do horribly.  The worst part was that I knew that she knew how to do the work.  So after dinner I had her fix the problems that she had gotten wrong without any help from me.  She breezed through them and was able to fix everyone.

I asked Rachel why she was able to get these correct at home and not at school.  She told me that it was hard to think at school.  I asked if she had taken her time like we had talked about.  She assured me that she had and, in fact, she was the last one to turn in her test.  So what was the problem.

"It's hard to think in the classroom because all the other kids are talking and laughing," she told me.

I asked, "You mean after the other kids are done they don't have to keep quiet?"

"No," she said. "They all start talking to each other and laughing and I just can't think."

Well another mystery solved.  While Rachel probably won't grow up to be a mathematician, with a little peace and quiet, she will probably do quite well.

Just gotta make it to June 10th.

Comments

[amyhAmyH]

Ugh. They'll probably work through next week and not Monday and Tuesday, hopefully, so you're kind of done with her sooner. We're out on the 10th too.

[gg]

That is so absurd, makes you wonder if the teacher is even in the room!!

[Carrie T]

I can't believe Rachel doesn't get out until the June 10. Most kids here in NW Kansas were done May 16th.