I started out in CA. I took the CBEST and was also amazed at the number of people waiting for the test to start who kept saying that they had taken the test before and really hoped they’d pass this time. The CBEST was soooo easy.
I took many other tests in CA to get my teaching license, and they were all really easy. I heard time and time again about how hard they were.
Two weeks ago, my small town’s newspaper published a short letter to the editor it had received from a local first grade teacher, who is also the president of the county association of educators. The letter had numerous spelling and grammar, including punctuation and capitalization, errors. It was basically incomprehensible as the author did not even use complete sentences.
Since it’s publication, there have been four letters of protest in the paper. Parents should be marching on the school board.