By Kaitlyn Pujols

Amidst the wreckage of testing, the hopeless faces, and clicks of desperation, the student body has come to the realization that not only are they ill prepared for these new exams but the district is as well.

Ever since termination of the FCAT, the most dreaded acronym for students 6th through 10th has been FSA. The first run of this FSA testing hasn’t been the smoothest of rides. With computers shutting down or just not wanting to work at all, students were left without being tested or with even worse, suspended tests with error codes.

Superintendent Alberto Carvalho concedes that “The Miami Dade County decision to put teachers and students first was the right one, the testing problems continue. ”

Students were unclear about what they were being asked of since the first test run and once the halt of testing was announced in Dade schools, relief washed over the student body.

“There were some students that got this white loading screen for the longest time and the proctors didn’t want to touch it because the test might have completely shut down and ultimately making it worse for the students,” said Derek Perez, an eighth grader at Miami Lakes K8.

The cheap testing software isn’t all there is to it. A majority of teachers received minimal training on how to handle and troubleshoot problems that arose and were left baffled at how many errors the test gave them, having already been accustomed to the simple FCAT format.

Failed tests weren’t entirely the proctors fault, the program for testing was not ready at all for student use. Most schools bandwidths were overloaded after the first couple log-ins of the test, resulting in errors for most everyone else

Testing will resume tomorrow with the 9th graders that initially were not able to test