<p>IMHO as a student, too, don't EVER, EVER come to Indiana. The vast majority of teachers in my school system go absolutely berserk in the weeks leading up to the ISTEP+ and the CORE 40 exams (math, science, english credit depends on results). Furthermore, as incredibly easy as the ISTEP+ is, 43% of the sophomores who depend on the ISTEP+/GQE to graduate failed both math and english on the test this past year. Supposedly, students must pass the GQE in 10th grade (or keep trying 'til they do) in order to graduate, but now someone has come up with a waiver for the the kids who fail too many times. </p>
<p>The funny part is that thanks to our former governor Frank O'Bannon (may he rest/rot in peace), the state budget is so out of whack that they have cut funding to schools by as much as $200,000/school for the next school year. In one of the city high schools, they canned 20 teachers because there will be no money to pay them. We still spell words phonetically here, and nearly every pickup truck you see has a "Git 'er dun" bumper sticker on it. Forget the standardized testing; we were dumb enough to start out. The term "Brain-Drain State" was created in honor of us.</p>
<p>"I can only imagined how annoyed the professors will be when it's their turn to teach students who have been pounded with high-stakes standardized testing all their lives." </p>
<p>Haha...they may have to form a support group with the humble secondary school teachers who hear that question everyday.</p>