Down with tests and exams

Exams Exams they are here. I still don't understand why we have to take about 6 test a school year. From what I've heard from teachers is that Texas makes students take way to many test. I think it's true. I have cousins that live up north and they're barely in sixth grade and already they know how to divide functions. I barely learned that my eighth grade year! All we know is how to correctly bubble in a dumb test sheet. I've had teachers who say they rather teach us important things that colleges expect us to know, but instead they have us learning out of a book. Now we can't even take field trips anywhere, not even to the damn zoo. They make our teachers fill a whole stack of paper work then they have to wait then they have to sign more paper work and then they wait some more, by that time we're almost out of school. I get that maybe the school district doesn't want to get sued because of the previous accidents, but why can't teachers take learning out of the class. I don't know about other people, but I learn by seeing not reading or hearing, and I'm getting bored of the white board with erasable markers. Yes the smart board is pretty neat but a teachers writing comes out like the hand writing of a kindergartner. Well college here I come, I promise I won't let you down when it comes to filling in test bubbles I'm good at that! :D... What's the difference between tests and exams anyways?