This whole thing stinks.
If the school would have simply failed the kid on the test, and resolved it as necessary from there. And for the life of me, how could a kid not have something to write. He sounds like he either a punk or a baby.
There was no reason for any adult to yell at the child, but they need to either provide a little assistance in this are, or fail him this year and hope he gets it next time around.
The principal is yet another example of how the turd rises to the top of the bowl in the toilet that is public education.
Here's how I answer that question:
First I sigh inwardly as I know that liberal tolerance and "diversity" has come home to roost. I just saw my principle blown to bits as his corpse flew past my window. I can only assume that an adherent to the religion of peace just succeeded again into turning human beings into pieces.
Now I will cower in my classroom and await first responders and hope and pray that I don't have to use my social studies textbook as a bullet shield. If only they had armed my teacher, I might have a chance. As it stands now, I believe that I hear sporadic gunfire as a Muslim is going room to room executing the occasional student that cries or looks at him wrong. I know now what those children in Beslan Russia felt and now I understand why my father was so dismayed that Democrats took both houses of congress.
That is what happens next when the principle flies past my window.
Obviously this child doesn't know the correct answer to such questions.
The principal blew by the window, blown off his feet by winds caused by global warming. Luckily, there was a multicultural group of students made up of each ethnic group, faith and orientation holding an anti-Bush rally outside, and the principal was able to grab onto their kite strings. After pulling the principal down to goddess Earth, they all celebrated with a non-touching hug and agreed to make sure their parents vote today for change. Rainbows and unicorns ensued. Barney and the Wiggles. The End.
From a person with 4 teachers in immediate family:
Teachers in government schools are:
25% committed and skilled
25% malevolent or incompetent
50% incompetent or unmotivated
School administrators are 75% malevolent or incompetent.
Home school or Christian school.
I wouldn't have been able to write anything without making fun of the test.
I wish that once, just once, I told my English teacher what I really felt. "This book sucked. The main character is a jerk. And I'm not going to write a paper saying how great the author is." But I always told the teacher what she wanted to hear.
It's one of the reasons why we're homeschooling.
My daughter just read "The Yearling." Remember that one?
My daughter: "That was a weird story. When they weren't doing their chores they liked to sit around naked and sing!"
Me: "Oh yeah! I think I remember that! That was weird."
Daughter: "Yeah, really weird."
The truth will set you free.
What if he has said... "I quickly leveled the barrel, exhaled, and lead the principle by six inches...."
Does anyone here have a child or grandchild around his age? One of the most popular series of books, by Dav Pilkey, is "Captain Underpants."
I read a very positive review of these books about three or four years ago, but wasn't sure if I wanted to buy them for my grandchild, who is now ten. I was at first hesitant because I thought we were raising a very proper child who didn't say poop or mention wedgies and boogers. He found these books so funny that he looked forward to reading each one. (My daughter and I loved to read them with him, too!) And that, say librarians, is the secret to getting a kid to read....something they find enjoyable. He would actually belly laugh while we read. And he continues to be a kind, proper, gentle child with a great sense of humor, who is one of two boys in the gifted and talented program in his class of 16 children.
These books are in school libraries and book stores. In each book, two mischievous boys write a comic-book. In each one, they turn the school principal into a guy with a cape who wears underpants and flies outside the school.
When I read this thread, I immediately thought of "Captain Underpants!"
http://www.pilkey.com/books.php
Here is another example of how uptight some of our educators are now-a days......
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lidres1026,0,928031.story?coll=ny-jets-print
Anymore pictures of his mom?!
"You look out one day at school and see your principal flying by a window.
Did the date happen to be Nov. 8, 2006?
Where is the dad in this picture? Why no mention of him in the article?
Horizontally, or vertically?
part 2: you see your principal in the unemployment line. what do you do? point and laugh.
I think he should be returned to Cuba...? oh wait, wrong kid.
"You're driving through a seedy part of town when you see your principal making a meth buy in an alley. He's also having sex with hooker who's on her knees. You recognize her as the Prsident of the local NEA. He's see you and fires off several rounds from an Uzi wounding you. Write what happens next!"
This is also one thing that stuck out at me. The kid here wasn't being asked for a couple sentences; they were asked for several paragraphs. For the life of me, I can't figure out how someone could stretch such a stupid topic out that long to begin with. That's good enough reason not to bother answering, too, IMO.
And what has been done in the one and one half years since this made the news? Can the kid turn a phrase now? Is he homeschooling?
As I saw the principal flying by the window I realized that she was rushing away from a school system that seeks to impose thought control on all students and faculty. I realized how cowardly and fascistic this school system is, which doesn't know how to teach but knows every way imaginable to suppress clear and independent thinking.
Then I realized that I was wrong. I finally came to the realization that she was exstatically rushing to go to church to worship God to thank him for being Republican and straight.
Unfortunately, the boy was working on a different set of worries. He knew that whatever he wrote would be unflattering to the principal, and he was concerned he'd get into trouble over that.
I agree, though, that the school should have absolutely NO ability to interfere with the test taking; how else could the public be assured that the school is not giving answers or something else to increase the kids' averages to make the school look good?