I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)
Woah, my son is in the equivalent of 7th grade in France (5ème) and he would have never answered the questions correctly (not would I).<p>We have our share of twisted poetry, but it usually is about some soldier dying on the battlefield of WWI, or about a herring nailed on the wall (those who we at school in the 80's will recognize it (<i>...sec, sec, sec...</i>).<p>The answers are pretty much straightforward, at the level of a regional beauty contest when they are asked a personal question and they answer that they dream of a better world without starving children (or that the US should provide maps to the world, according to Miss South Carolina).<p>I would hate to have my future hanging on the interpretation of someone's trip when high. Especially when 13 years old.