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The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.

Part one.

Behind the scenes with a member of the show.

What's up, everybody?

Welcome to the weekend.

Why?

Why? I was trying to mimic you and I couldn't. I broke character. All right, go ahead. Sorry, do your thing. No, hey, everybody welcome Scoopin to the show. They know what's going on. They heard the intro. They got it. Let's do it. I know. So how are kids liking their new school? You were mentioning the reason you were talking about coming in a little late is because kids are in their new school. How's it going?

Yeah, school. Definitely the traffic changes everything as everyone knows, but they are loving their new school. I think it's a different environment and less kids for one teacher. So there's a little bit more attention put on everyone.

And they love that.

I mean, their energy is completely different from where they were last year to now.

So it's awesome.

Okay.

How are you feeling about the fact that your kids are liking private school a little bit more than public school?

I mean, it's one of those things where I grew up in public school system, but even growing up in it, I had moments as I got older. I'm like, wow, this is, especially in Florida. I don't know what they had in Kansas, but in Florida, when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, we had this thing called the F-CAT, which basically was a standardized test that everyone in the state took.

And then depending on how your students did, would reflect your budget for the school year,

I think for the next school year or later, whenever they did budgets.

So all we did all year long was learn this test.

So we didn't really actually learn what we should have learned.

I mean, there was a little bit of that sprinkled in there. But the teachers, unfortunate to them, they were so focused on making sure we memorized and knew this test because at the end of the year we're going to take it. And it reflected them as teachers. And maybe there was a bonus structure tied to it and all that. Something similar in Kansas. I think that used to be kind of a thing all over. Yeah. At least, you know, way before, obviously now. But that sounds very familiar. I know we had standardized testing for sure. I just don't know what it was called. Maybe they were all cat. They just had some sort of cat, yeah. F cat. K cat. K cat. Wait, C, C, yeah. But it's like kind of like, I understand you have to take a standardized test to see how the kids did at the end of the year. But then you put this pressure on the teachers where they're only focused on that test. And then they're not looking at other things they should be teaching you. Some teachers kind of like, I had some teachers that were like, at that test. And they would teach us whatever they wanted because they were just out of the norm. But those are very few far in between. And everyone was very much following the regimen because they knew it affected them, which is unfair to not only the teacher, but it's also unfair to us as kids learning and growing through that system. And so we didn't get to learn as much as we should have in public schools.

No, I'm pretty sure that's also the reason why I have testing anxiety. Yeah. Because we always

had comprehensive tests. And I hated comprehensive tests because I would study for a test and I would

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