Ugh! Now I’ll have nightmares. My 5th grade English teacher, who was likely a member of Hitler’s gestapo in another life, used to torment those of us who lagged behind in our SRA readings. Then, of course, the torture was complete as she would have us read Moby Dick.
I guess I was lucky in my teachers. All of my grade school teachers just left the SRA boxes in the back of the room and, if we had finished our in-class tasks, we were allowed to use the SRA box to keep us occupied. No pressure on anybody (at least none that I ever recognized).
Shh, shh, it’s only a dream. It can’t really hurt you.