[SoftballMominVA]

When you say 'the last 9 weeks' do you mean that in every 9 weeks the school spends 3 weeks on standardized testing or do you meant that during the last 9 weeks of the year the school spends 3 weeks on standardized testing?

The first way leads to 12 weeks of school year spent in testing, the second leads to 3 weeks of the school year spent in testing.

[A_perfect_lady]

Neither. We’re a year-round school, so we do 16 weeks on, 8 weeks off. And during this fall semester, we started school, and seven weeks later had the CAT-6, (I think it’s called; I still have a hard time keeping all the California acronyms straight). A week after that, my English students had their Narrative assessment, and at the same time the ESL students had a series of tests that spread out over about 2 weeks. It was chaos with bubble sheets. And before we leave, the English students will have another assessment in October. The spring semester won’t be quite as bad, but it was three weeks of WTF.