Wonder Woman and Adventures in Test Taking

Have any of you ever walked into a entry with its perimeter completely surrounded by wonder women?! This wonder woman has...it can be quite the intimidation. But let me rewind and set the scene.

Things are not all wonderful in Wonderland. The pay is not so great, and the Duchess has been lopping off the hours like there's no tomorrow. So, like any wonder woman in this situation I took it upon myself to find something a little better. I'm not out for the stars or anything, just something a little better. Anyway, something a little better responded last Friday when this wonder woman received an email saying she had been selected as part of a job search to take an exam for an education position. All right! I responded promptly and was told to be at the exam no later than 12:15.

I arrive, at 12:14 (I am wonderful, after all) and walk through the glass doors with my head held high. When they open I see a huge board room entrance with every inch of perimeter covered in wonder women just like me waiting for the exam to begin. They were all ages, backgrounds, and I can only assume levels of wonder. All of them did have to have the same length of hair, which I found a little funny and laughed. Have you ever had one hundred plus wonderful eyes look at you at once...?

We were led to the board room, checked in with official photo ID, given our pencils and scantrons. We were told by the proctor that because of the high amount of applicants the only way to make it to the third round of 'interviews' was to score no less than 90% on the exam. I admit it, I gulped. Who knew public education had such high standards?

One hundred questions. Half in language arts, half in math, and a small amount in classroom management. One hour and ten minutes later I was walking out of that impressive group one test down and a little fearful. I was rusty on multiplying fractions. I didn't know there would be fractions. Even rustier on long multiplication turns out. I never knew how much I relied on calculators till I was denied one.

The results should be emailed to us this evening. Is this wonder woman in the top ten percent of her own kind?! Stay tuned, WW.