At the school I work at now, our big fund raiser is called the CRCT Prom. The CRCT is our huge standardized test that requires you to give all but your first born child to ensure that your students will pass, and then if they don't you still might have to sacrifice your child to the state or whatever idiot it was that decided that this was the best way to measure learning (yes, I am SICK of the pressure!!!) and is coming up in April. I have no idea why the prom is named after this, but it is. Anyway, the way it raises money is that each class has a prince and princess to represent them, and then the students and parents raise money in whatever way they want, and whichever class raises the most money is the winner of prom king and queen. The parents at this school are completely uninterested in buying junk like cheap-o wrapping paper and over-priced candles, but, by golly, they'll go to all sorts of lengths to get their baby to win king or queen. We raised enough to buy a good bit of playground equipment, which is pretty expensive if you've never looked into it. Andy had to go out of town that night, so I took my kids with me and they had an absolute blast. It was a pretty fun night for everyone. Here are the few pictures I managed to snag with my phone, although they're not that great because it was hard to keep anyone still and I don't have a flash on my phone.
In this picture, the big girl in the middle (who is actually a year younger than Drew!) is the sister of boy in my class, and then there are 2 little girls in my class along with Drew and Alli.
Alli made best-buds with a little girl in my class who is about the same size as she is. They were cute together.
And then here I am with the same 2 little girls in my class and Alli there in the back!
3 comments:
So would it be safe to assume that Alli and Evan are now wards of the state with Drew potentially becoming one depending on how well your students do in the CRTC. We had CRTs when I was a sophomore in Geometry. It stood for completely redone test. A way to redeem one's self when he screwed up majorly.
I kinda hated my high school prom. I probably would've loved prom if it were the CRCT prom!
Yeah, the CRCT becomes a CRT for certain kids who bomb it. And, it was better than high school prom - no one had anything to prove to anybody. It was just kids who aren't old enough to have inhibitions and parents who are there to have fun with their kids and don't care what people think. I'm already looking forward to next year's prom!
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