Very soon, students will be taking the ghastly MEA’s. The 2009 Maine Education Assessments will be taking place all over the state of Maine from March 2 to March 20. While kids have been dreading these since the first day of each new school year, schools love them. They show each child’s progress as well as the schools learning progress. It also helps determine what teaching method is best for helping kids learn what they need to learn. If many kids fail or do poorly, the schools can see that they need to make some teaching adjustments.

So, while most kids may not like to spend a week in a stuffy room taking a never-ending test, schools and the state benefit from it.