Poems about Testing

Testing, Testing, Testing

by Ted Scheu

Testing, testing, testing!
They’re testing us to death.
At school, we take so many tests
we’re almost out of breath

From testing, testing, testing!
It’s all we seem to do.
If you could look inside our brains
you’d see they’re black and blue

From testing, testing, testing!
And that is my concern.
We take so many tests each week
there’s barely time to learn.

Copyright © 2002 Ted Scheu. From the book If Kids Ruled the School. Meadowbrook Press. Reprinted by permission of the author.  from http://www.poetryminute.org/testing-testing-testing-by-ted-scheu/