Is It Apathy?
Like all city high schools now, my school administered the PSATs to our sophomores and juniors yesterday. I proctored the first half of the exam, then switched with another teacher to take my lunch. In the staff lounge, a few other teachers who had recently been relieved were working.I got to talking to Ms. C., a math teacher. She was proctoring a room of eleventh graders. I asked her how it was going. "Oh, you know," she said with a shrug. "Mostly okay. Two kids" [she named them] "looked at it, said it was too hard, put their heads down, and went to sleep."
