today i watched s4e9, the episode with the scenes about the state wide assessments at the high school, and damn this show is something.
its fucked cause i grew up in another part of maryland and took those same tests, but it being a richer area, they never told me why they really existed. the administrators and teachers always told us that we took the tests so that our teachers could know about our individual needs as students, not so that the state could assess the whole school and decide whether or not we deserved the education we were getting.
i was raised my whole life being constantly told that the world i inhabited was completely apart from baltimore, when really ive always been living on the same fucking coin, just square on the other side of it.