Florida Writes, The Florida Writing Assessment, is a test required by law that students in grades fourth, eighth, and tenth must take. It supposedly measures each student's proficiency in writing with a prompt and a forty five minute time limit. This is, at least, what the government would have us believe.
In 1991, just a year after the law for the test was passed, a team of people, now called the FWAI (The Florida Writing Asessment Investigators) began investigating the disappearance of a tenth grade student. No discoveries were made. Three months into the investigation, a fourth grade student disappeared and many more students followed after. Each missing student was found to be in fourth, eighth, or tenth grade. Though the FWAI took this to be a coincidence at first, the continuance of this seemed to prove otherwise.
Last May a breakthrough was made when a link between each missing student's paper was discovered. Each essay contained the word "cheese" at least once. The FWAI was thrilled, but all further investigations came to a sudden halt when Floria Writes Officials got a letter approving their to plea to ban any further investigations by the FWAI.
An FWAI investigator, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that, "This just proves many of our speculations - that the government is involved." There is also a strange theory that moon inhabitants have been abducting the students. This has been explained as, "they find the references to cheese to be a threat to their planet."
Whether the moon theory is correct or the government is hiding something, I think it would be wise to follow Jack Colby's, Chief of FWAI, advice, "Makes sure your kids don't use the word 'cheese' when they take the tests. If you do this, I'm sure we'll have many more eleventh grade students."
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great job! you're moving on to the next round... allpoetry.com/poem/2241706
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Well you see.... the test isn't to test either of those things, it's to test whether the students are a threat the moon inhabitants.
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Lol, this is indeed humorous and quite intriguing. I was enticed by it. Though I was looking forward to reading your opinion on whether or not it tests how great a writer someone is, but I missed that part.. I didn't really leave with that question answered. shrugs oh well though this was awsome and interesting anyway. I guess this tests positive that you ARE a great writer.
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No no... brilliant.
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One word. Weird.
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lol, thank you. It was an assignment for the contest, Teen Idol and I really had no idea what to write.... suddenly this came out.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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I started reading this, thinking of the dreaded feeling my son is having. He is in fourth grade this year and is not looking forward to the Florida Writes. Then I about fell off my chair laughing. You definitely made this humorous. Good work. Maybe it will help lighten up the subject for this est a bit. I will have to share this with my son.
Storm
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