Taught in Tejas, this is all true. Kids crying, puking , all because the teacher was being evaluated by a test. They spend 45 days a year teaching to that test exclusively. The last 6 wks of school are taken up re-training the kids who flunked initially. State mandated tests are worthless, awful and are in lieu of actual education. What may be worse is that the tests themselves are poorly written and enhance non-essential information over critical learning that could be occurring.
Wrong side.