Tatek Students and Teachers Tackle Tough Test

Tatek students and teachers will face the coming onslaught of the RAAATS, or Reasonable Applied Academic  Assessment for Tatek Students. The RAATS replaced the TSAAR, or Tatek Sector Assessment of Academic Readiness, and is twice as hard as the TSAAR. One teacher, Thurin Therauht, says that the test has put stress into everybody's lives. "Children are up studying for a test that is harder than the last one. Tatek is making me teach to the test. This will not help our children learn. They will only learn test-taking strategies and nothing that will pertain to real life, and on top of that, they are making them swim through many academic readiness forms and practices, detracting from social skills that could last a lifetime. " Many students agree. One, Huirt Herran, says that they must prepare for "trickery." "The test is hard, man," he says. "They are trying to trick us on that test, and the teachers don't teach us anything except what is on the test. They make too big a hype over it. I would rather have recess than go through this mess of test-preparing strategies." Parents are in agreement, too. Heidi Herran says "This test is absurd. They should learn social skills instead of studying for a test that is stupid, long, and boring. And there are so many rules and regulations, like my baby would cheat  on the test." Meanwhile, Tatek sector educators are planning the next installment in the Test Saga. -