WESTEST

This is WESTEST week, and it brings to mind the standardized tests used in Cabell County before West Virginia adopted WESTEST.

A week before the testing, school system officials would send out the same list of helpful hints they sent out every year. One of the funniest was encouraging parents to make sure their kids got enough sleep so they could be alert during test week.

And when was this testing done? Usually the first week of daylight savings time, when kids would be getting up an hour earlier than usual.

Nowadays, WESTEST is done in May, long after kids' biological clocks have adjusted to daylight savings time.