He says

That in here,

We celebrate learning

Release the stress

Do your best

It's a learning celebration

So don't call it a test

This is about celebrating what you have learned

Rather than proving what you don't know

So of course, I study for hours

Rereading notes,

Rewrite them,

Annotate them,

Worship them

Even though I see this classroom as nearly sacred

It is still in the school

In school we'll sit in classrooms

And be told how to think

And what to believe

So even the ones that don't

Are held to the same standard

And retain the same reputation

We are told that

We need to know

The answer to every question on the test
Or

How to find it
So when these classes are still seen as classes

No matter how much we clean our glasses

What are we supposed to think?

The answer was never taught to me

How are we supposed to perceive

This difference?

My brain is malfunctioning

A learning celebration is formatted the same as a test

It goes in the gradebook the same

If we don't change the meaning

Why change the name?

He doesn't tip toe around answers

And connects it to the reputation held in our brains

Says if it eases us for a second

It's done its job

If we believe we can for one second

And then determine we can't

Does that change our original probability

Or does it just change our stance?

With the popularity of standardized tests

Will these learning celebrations really help us do our best?

Is it more important to know what we do or don't know?

In

World
How do we

Great
How do we

     C) Clearly

And not

     D) Grade

Ourselves

When we're so focused on our GPA?

Isn't education something to celebrate?

In a country

Where we are free to learn

You think we wouldn't be so trapped

In our standards

You wouldn't think it'd be so unusual

To be happy with what you were able to learn

Rather than be upset

That you missed 2 or 3 or 5 questions

You wouldn't think that some would be upset

By earning anything less than a 100%

If schools are for growing

Why do we expect people to grow at the same rate?

We have proven that that's not true before

You can even analyze our brains

If we don't think the same

Then we don't learn the same

And anything learned

Should be something

That we shouldn't

Stress about
but

     B) Celebrate