Marz's Reflection:
Year after year we all are forced to take state mandated tests, or as we call them EOG’s. We all know the drill; sit silently in your seat, complete the test to the best of your abilities, fully bubble in your answers and when you’re done remain silent in your seat. Year after year I notice that a lot of paper is used during the testing but I never really gave it a second thought. I mean it really couldn’t be that much paper, I thought, and surely they recycle all of this paper.
Now after completing this project I realized exactly how much we use and it’s mindblowing. I never thought that in just Wake County middle schools alone we use over 3.1 million sheets of paper. That to me is crazy, it’s hard for me to imagine how much is used in all of NC, let alone the entire country. Now that I know how much paper is used it really wants to make me do my part in the environment, even if it’s just recycling old papers I don’t need anymore.
Moving forward I hope that the article that we wrote will be able to help bring some awareness to the amount of paper that is wasted and burned yearly for testing and that some of our solutions such as limiting the amount of scratch paper used, taking the tests online, or even just getting the state to recycle the paper after all of the testing is over. But I don’t have any control over that so, I am just going to make sure that I do my part in recycling all the paper I can and not letting it go to a landfill.
Now after completing this project I realized exactly how much we use and it’s mindblowing. I never thought that in just Wake County middle schools alone we use over 3.1 million sheets of paper. That to me is crazy, it’s hard for me to imagine how much is used in all of NC, let alone the entire country. Now that I know how much paper is used it really wants to make me do my part in the environment, even if it’s just recycling old papers I don’t need anymore.
Moving forward I hope that the article that we wrote will be able to help bring some awareness to the amount of paper that is wasted and burned yearly for testing and that some of our solutions such as limiting the amount of scratch paper used, taking the tests online, or even just getting the state to recycle the paper after all of the testing is over. But I don’t have any control over that so, I am just going to make sure that I do my part in recycling all the paper I can and not letting it go to a landfill.