So much for that self esteem building.
Looking at the meanings of the verb fly:
- be a passenger in an airplane
- pilot an airplane
- metaphor for "rush"
- self-propelled airborne locomotion, as for example with birds
The only meaning that can represent what a person can do within several feet of a school window, is "rush".
What they are obviously trying to do is conduct a stealth psychological exam, by carefully watching to see what the child writes they expect to discover all sorts of unacceptable (to the PC crowd) tendencies.
Does the child have hidden violent tendencies?
Does the child harbor hostility toward authority?
Whatever happened to marking an unanswered question as incorrect and then moving on?
Answer: "I then opened the paper and saw that the Republicans had kept the House and Senate.
"You look out one day at school and see your principal flying by a window. In several paragraphs write what happens next."
is an idiotic question, and a bright 9 yo boy can reasonably be expected to see it as such. Had I (at that age) been presented with such stupidity, I would probably have written a very brief story involving "crashing and burning", and gone on with life.
In those halcyon days, the powers that be would have ignored it.
In this age of political correctness and "zero tolerance" for "workplace violence" ... the powers that be are completely capable of misinterpreting such as a "terroristic threat", and imposing all manner of psychological maltreatment on the boy.
And many FReepers would applaud them.
The boy was smart to dodge that "question".
This is Bureaucracy gone amok.
Fire that stupid principal!
One of my rules of the universe is that people have absolutely no idea what to do with power & influence once they have it. The average person goes completely nuts when they wield power.
Conservatives do no better than liberals in this observation, sorry to say.
This situation is a great example of that guiding principle.
UNREAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So will they reduce the student in rank?
We should all help this poor boy by giving him ideas for his question's answer. I'll start:
1. Everybody says "Wow, he's got a new broom!"
2. My mom says "I told you, Pow, Right in the kisser if you touch me agian and what does he do?"
3. I give Billy the five bucks, "yep, he was dumb enough to try to pry up the quarter we glued to the road."
4. I told him my dad could beat him up, but Nooooo.
5. Then the smell hit us.
6. I yell "I told you the brakes werte touchy!"
7. The teacher says, that's what streaking is.
8. I yell "Stop drop and roll! you idiot!"
9. Billy gives me five bucks, and sys "I knew he couldn't use wheelies"
10. The teacher says, "Well, I said when Pigs fly, so class dismissed!
Give him an 'F' on the paper and move on
WA State ping....
My God...what an arrogant, pompous bureaucrat. The jerk needs to be brought down a notch by the School Committee.
My problem is that at that age, I would have had an answer and I'd have been suspended anyway! (I was about his age when I discovered Monty Python's Flying Circus.)
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WA State Ping...JFK
Whenever I think things have reached a head in intolerability, I just look north to Warshington....
I guess his dad is camera shy or he'd be in the picture. I must have read it too fast because I missed his quotes. I'm sure the story had lengthy quotes from dad too, but I just skimmed the story. I better go back through it.
This sort of thing is to be expected under socialized schooling. She needs to get off the socialized schooling welfare program and put the kid in a capitalist school or home school him.