Posted on 09/08/2014 2:35:52 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Avery Gagliano is a commanding young pianist who attacks Chopin with the focused diligence of a master craftsman and the grace of a ballet dancer.
The 12-year-old prodigy was one of 12 musicians selected from across the globe to play at a prestigious event in Munich last year and has won competitions and headlined with orchestras nationwide.
Too bad, so sad. After 10 unexcused absences, it doesn’t matter whether a child was playing hooky to hang at the mall or charming audiences in Hong Kong with her mastery of Mozart. D.C. bureaucrats will label the kid a truant, will mar her transcript with that assessment and will assign a truancy officer to the case.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The 8-year-old living in a homeless shelter and attending a school overwhelmed with transient children — where truancy can be a sign of something dangerous — racks up 30 absences before someone has the time to notice.
But over in the Other City, where some D.C. public schools are as fancy as their neighborhood, the little concert pianist is collared and the truancy police are on high alert."
Translation - Get the white girl ...
Sue the District for denying opportunity from their child.
Take the kid out of government school and avoid contact with government to the maximum extent possible.
She will be better off in the long run.
Michelle don’t like Chopin or Mozart.
Me either.
How could you not like Mozart?
There needs to be a harsh prison for all bureaucrat bullies. Death Valley or Northeast Alaska. Condemned has choice of freeze or bake..
Why wouldn’t playing in a concert be considered for an excused absence, unless the parents/teacher failed to apply in advance??? Do you know which school this was?
In D.C., truancy means actually going to school.
It’s a good thing W.A. Mozart didn’t go to school in D.C. As he started playing piano and composing before he was 6, he would have been thrown out of kindergarten and banished to the local reform school for re-education.
Washington, D.C. (District of Cretins)
Perhaps by hearing Dowland, Byrd and Piccinini.
The parents should have every right to pull their kid out of school for a day without needing the schools permission. They don’t own us
Someone should accuse her of being gay, ... or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG6z8xldTwY
Her mother is Asian; if she shot a black thug, she’d be a “white Asian.”
The ten day rule applies in our district too.
The way around it is to plan ahead and get a study packet.
Students like this should ALWAYS be HOMESCHOOLED!
If they gave her a break for performing at a concert, other parents would want breaks for their kids that play midnight basketball ...
My first thought, too.
The truant officer:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jemea-goso/b/b33/578
Jealous of talent? Committed to leveling the piano-playing field? Or is she just a nasty, affirmative action idiot?
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