Shout Out!!!

On Monday and Tuesday, for four hours each day, I had Josh shut up here in my room taking a National Standardized Test.  Now, normally, I'm not a big tester.  I don't teach to the tests.  I don't feel like it's a real indicator of intelligence or learning.  However, I thought it was a good opportunity to see where Josh stands as far as 'national standards', and see if there were any holes that I needed to take care of in the near future.

I admit that during the testing, I became a little concerned.  For most of the tests, he was allotted about 1 hour.  Usually, though, he'd pop out after about 10 minutes saying he was done!  What?  I kept asking him if he was sure he had answered all the questions... :/

Today, I got the results back.  Wow.  He was in the 80-90 percentile in everything (except one, which I knew about already, but even that one wasn't so bad)!  The test said his total test average put him roughly on par with a first semester 11th grader!  WOOT!  I can't even begin to tell you how VINDICATED I feel!! Ha!  I know, I know, I just finished ranting about how tests don't really tell you anything and blah, blah, blah--the kid did AWESOME!  A few of his test scores said the grade equivalent was post high school (Math problem solving and science)!  Talk about mom pride!  No, not pride in what a good teacher I am (*shine my badge here*--but I didn't even GO INTO the room when he was testing.  I was tempted to, but I ), but pride in my son who did such an outstanding job.  See?  Homeschooling doesn't ruin kids.  Look what he's learning!  Look at the leaps-and-bounds progress he's made in the past 2 years!

Way to go Josh!  See?  You CAN do anything!! :)