1. Severe Weather Testing Protocols

2. Protocol 1 Should a severe weather situation occur during testing, please remain calm. To display any kind of anxiety would be a testing irregularity and must be reported.

3. Protocol 2 Please do not look out the window to watch for approaching tornadoes. You must monitor the students at all times. To do otherwise would be a testing irregularity and must be reported.

4. Protocol 3 Should students notice an approaching tornado and begin to cry, please make every effort to protect their testing materials from the flow of tears and sinus drainage.

5. Protocol 4 Should a flying object come through your window during testing, please make every effort to ensure that it does not land on a testing booklet. Please make sure to soften the landing of the flying object so it will not disturb the students during testing.

6. Protocol 5 Should shards of glass from a broken window come flying into the room, have the students use their bodies to shield their testing materials so they won’t be damaged. Have plenty of gauze on hand to ensure that no one accidently bleeds on the test booklets.

7. Protocol 6 Should gale force winds ensue, please have everyone stuff their test booklets into their shirts – being careful not to bend them.

8. Protocol 7 If any student gets sucked into the vortex of a funnel cloud, please make sure they mark at least one answer before departing and make sure they leave their test booklets. You will have to account for these booklets.

9. Protocol 8 Should a funnel cloud pick you, the test administrator, up and take you flying over the rainbow, you will still be required to account for all your testing materials when you land so please take extra precautions. Remember, once you have checked them out, they should never leave your hands.

10. Protocol 9 When rescue workers arrive to dig you out of the rubble, please make sure that they do not, at any time, look at or handle the testing materials. Once you have been treated for your injuries, you will still be responsible for checking your materials back in. Search dogs will not be allowed to sift through the rubble for lost tests …unless, of course, they have been through standardized test training.

11. Protocol 10 Please do not pray should a severe weather situation arise. Your priority is to actively monitor the test and a student might mark in the wrong section if you are praying instead of monitoring.

12. A little lunchtime humor!