If you assume a group of teachers, shut in together to grade exams from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., would be living their own definition of hell, you haven’t ever been to an Advanced Placement Exam Reading. Every June, thousands of teachers in 27 disciplines do just that — in Kentucky, Florida, Nebraska, Colorado, Ohio and Missouri.

I was “shut in” the Kentucky Convention Center with 2,600 other readers in English Literature and Composition, U.S. History, French, and Statistics — and the vast majority liked it and hoped to return next June.