MEAs

MEA, (Maine Educational Assessment) comes to Maine school districts and enforces these tests as a requirement for the schools. MEAs are the evaluation of the school. Every single student in the district takes the tests. The tests have multiple sessions, and are reading, writing, and math. Most students dislike the tests and I am not sure how one could look forward to them. Though we need them because they help construct the school’s reputation and status.

But are they necessary? Everyone can think, ‘no of course not! Other ways to test the school!’ But they actually are essential. We all have to put up with them and in the end, it does not affect our school life. Besides taking many hours out of the day.

We answer a certain amount of questions, some with multiple choice answers, others with brief essay responses and others with many quick typed answered. I think that taking the tests can be inconsistent. Some questions are easy and others make you think for a while. The types of questions are all very wide variety on the math. The reading and writing ones, those can be maybe 5-10 or so, questions on the same 2 passages. Maybe a compare and contrast type thing at times.

All classes get shortened by a certain amount of time for the testing. It may disrupt a week in our school year, but we all need to do it. From Buxton Center Elementary, to the Bonny Eagle high school. Every student, in every school, in the MSAD6 district is required to sit down and take these certain tests.