School and Benchmarks...and tests, quizzes, and homework

     School... so EVERY six weeks we have to take a benchmark, Ugh. I hate benchmarks and im sure everyone else hates them to. Like seriously not everyone will remember everything they learned though out the whole year, and not to mention we all tend to freak out a bit when we see that big packet smack down on our desk. Benchmarks are just test and quizzes bunched up, and it pressures most of us to do good so we rush or over think everything cause we know they look at those scores carefully.
Test, Quizzes, and Homework..... Uggg, this whole thing on we have to prove we know what we are doing is like... ugg. Test and quizzes are OK i guess but homework, noooooo. Homework should be an optional practice and should never take longer than 30 mins to do. BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE ALSO WANT TO DO OTHER THINGS THAN LEAR AND WORK, AND YOU WANT TO DO OTHER THINGS THAT GRADING EVERY WORKSHEET! Think if e didn't have to do homework teachers wouldn't have to grade as much and it would be our fault if we didn't practice with the homework and got a bad grade on the test. I think this is logical and would work. Don't take any grade on the homework unless they turned it in and it should be a easy 100 and those people can have a better grade than those who just take the tests and fail or get a passing grade.

I could go on with this but im leaving this up to you guys, what do you think about all this?

Ebola and school

As we all know Ebola has been the highlight of everything and anything for the past few months and the commotion finally died down but, in those few months this is what it sounded like. Every cough or sneeze "EBOLA" "EBOLA" like chickens running away from the farmer.... yeah maybe not the est analogy but, still it was the same thing every time and the same commotion erupted. "Where did he/she go" "EWWW, gross" "get away" "Do you have Ebola?
         Then in science it all go brought up again, same in history and language arts. In math it was quiet weirdly enough, the teacher just plain scared us and hated to take about any thing like that with germs and people. So in math we all just kinda sat their thinking about what new Ebola catch phrase we could say next. I personally wasn't one to do that, i just sat their kinda angry and annoyed at this, i mean for one day yeah that's fine but for a month? No way, i was tired of it so i just finally shut them out. Ebola and school don't mix what so ever!