Testing, testing, and more testing

So every April for the past several years I have administered an English proficiency test to my students. Usually I have the whole month of April to give 50 to 60 students this test.

Four years ago, I think, we found some students at other schools who also had to be tested and I went to those schools to test another ten students.

Then things got out of hand. My numbers went up and the numbers of students at other schools who needed to be tested went up, too.

So... I trained the counselors at other schools to give the test but I continued to give the speaking part at those schools. The speaking part is the most difficult to score and I wanted to make sure that the students were fairly tested.

Last year increasing numbers prompted me to ask the counselors to take over the whole test. I did not feel it was fair to neglect my students to go to other schools.

This year testing has been completely crazy. The students have been tested to exhaustion. They have been STAR tested in reading and math, Academy of Reading and Math tested, and 9 weeks tested.
They have had 5 days of PARCC testing and face 3 more days of PARCC tests in May. The 3rd graders and kindergartners had state reading tests, too.

The last straw is there have been problems with the test I have to give. We received the tests 17 days late. The wrong grade level was assigned to 38 of my 84 students. Extra tests had to be ordered.

Summer can't come soon enough.