I got this from an AP French teacher a few days ago:
Hi, Ben,
My students took their French AP yesterday afternoon. Have you heard from anyone else? Their proctor, someone I’ve had conflict over yearbook with over the years, screwed up the conversational speaking part. He was interrupting and talking to students during the prompts. What an idiot.
Please tell me again why I am trying to build a successful AP program.
I will never do that again – promise kids a solid experience with a shot at a passing score, without full support from administration and my fellow teachers. Every decision leading up to the choosing of this terrible proctor, who evidently was the only tech guy who was willing to do the digital recording at the time, was an error in judgment.
Gee, all the while, me thinking that the actual proctor was going to be someone that I trusted and liked. They switched classrooms and proctors at the last minute on me. Plus, both of the adults directly involved in the process were rude and abrasive toward my students, especially my students with limited English, from Egypt.
My students spent, and likely wasted, a total of $1350 on the French test this year. Never again…