If you guessed Lexington, KY you were right.
Why are there 1000+ history teachers in Lexington? We are grading the U.S. History A.P. Exams. It is my first time as a grader, but so far it hasn't been so bad. Apparently almost 200,000 students took the exam and there are close to 1 million essays that need to graded over the next seven days.
It was described by a colleague as a grading gulag, but I haven't felt that pain yet. Of course, being the first day we spent 1/2 the time trying to learn how to grade consistently with everyone else. We'll see how mind-numbing it becomes tomorrow.
I'm grading a question about the Second Great Awakening and it's connection to things like abolition and temperance. Best line from a paper I've seen today: "Drinking makes people feel good, and the Puritans weren't down with that."
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DrH,
My friends and I have a little inside joke about the week-long AP grading experience: we call it "Money Camp." This is because they cover your travel, room and board, and pay you on top of it all. I heard they also give you beer on some of the nights - true?
- TL
Yep. They pay plane fare, hotel room (although you have to have a roommate), 3 meals a day - conference center buffet, 2 snack breaks (soda, popcorn, etc.), and they have a gathering room for the evenings with soda & chips. Supposedly on Saturday there is going to be some get together with an open bar. Whoohoo! And when I get home, apparently a check for about $1450 will arrive a couple of weeks later. Better than teaching a summer class, imo.
We called AP World part summer camp for history geeks and part academic gulag. Five meals a day, single dorm rooms, and Lincoln NE has not one but two happy hours a day. And I think 2 open bars.
-jon
It hasn't felt like a gulag yet, but I am SO glad that tomorrow is the last grading day. We didn't get the open bar last night, but I'm hoping that maybe tomorrow night they will stop holding out on us.
I did the AP reading, US History, for several years back when it was in San Antonio. Everything you say sounds exactly right (are newbies still "acorns"?), except we had ETS-provided alcohol every evening. To be honest, I wasn;t sure of the wisdom of that, but I never complained.
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