How to Take a Test

We discovered that the ACT was canceled due to the pandemic for the third time just two days before my son M was supposed to sit for the test. The first cancellation was in March just when everything slid into the sea of the pandemic; the second test date was in June, which we didn’t ever believe would happen anyway. But we thought the damn thing might actually go in July, especially at the suburban school north of NYC in a curve-flattened region that…