All Tests should be like this!

Ok so here is a little insight to the wild, wild ways of the Italian schools (not that I’m complaining!): So the other day we were supposed to have a science test – normal enough – but I should give you some background! My teacher just happens to be the vice principle of our school, and therefor most days she doesn’t come to class at all. Since Italians don’t believe in substitute teachers, we just mess around for that hour. On the days that she does come (rare occasion at that!) she is constantly being called out of the class to handle problems or sign registers for classes to get out early (the normal duties). So as you can image not a lot of work gets done, but it’s getting to the end of the semester and she needs to get our grades so last week she came in and announced that we were to have a test the next Friday. Now, being students and most of my class (except for me) being Italian, studying for this test was more like a suggestion – I mean, why worry, it’s only a test and who’s to say the teacher is even going to show up! There was no rush and I could think of a least a hundred other things I wanted to do (it’s the Italian mentality). So Friday rolls around, we get into class first thing that morning; we’re all mulling around talking when one of the tutors who works in our classroom comes in. And guess what, he met our teacher on the way up and she gave him the tests because she doesn’t know if she can make it! Well thank god because I didn’t study! So we sit down, read over the test and slowly and very discreetly (by which I mean in plain view) everyone takes out their books or notebooks or paper that they were going to cheat off of anyway and starts doing the test, copying from their notes! Now the tutor who brought the tests doesn’t seem to mind and things are going pretty well until three fourths of the first lesson is done when the teacher comes in. Of course everyone stuffs their books under the table so she won’t see them, which resulted in a grand crescendo of paper stuffing going on as she walked in! To which, of course, she heard, though she didn’t seem to really care. She stayed for a while walking up and down the row of desks and answering people’s questions, until the end of the first hour when she just had to go! Picking up her stuff she left saying something along the line of “well, if you’re going to copy, at least you have to know where to look, so you must have studied some”, as if that were a good enough answer, and she left! And all the books came right back out! Needless to say I think the class will have a pretty high average for that test! All I can say is that this is SOOOO ITALIAN!!!


Here watch this video about the difference between Italy an Europe, and just know from somone who is living in Italy, this movie speaks the ABSOLUTE truth!!


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